eh, not so much impressed by Pekovic in that clip as much as i am unimpressed with Cousins' defensive effort.
Obviously Cousins isn't making the best play, but you need good hands and footwork to make that move.
That is my go to move in the post - it's not that impressive. It just takes a bit of practice (which he should be doing a lot of since its his job). It was bad defense. And it was a pre-meditated move so it's not so impressive that he "beat the double team", because had the double team came from the baseline, he would have had no idea and committed a charge.
Are you 6-11, weigh 290 lbs and dunk on guys of the same size? It's very different, if you are that big.
Except he didn't dunk on anybody, nevermind anyone his size. Cousins was behind him and out of the picture, I think that looked like 6'6 John Salmons standing somewhere near the vicinity of the hoop.
This is a basic post move that most centers use and every center should have been taught at sometime. You use it to dupe a defender that wants to go for the blocked shot. Unless you are 6-11 and weigh 290 pounds, have practiced this move repeatedly and failed, then you are nobody better than me to comment of the difficulty of the move for him. Every big man has this move in their repertoire.
FWIW, this move isn't actually a "spin move" as the title of the video says. It's a pivot, up-fake, then step through. If you watch closely, you can see that. And he doesn't even really give/sell a good up-fake (not one at all actually). But Cousins bites anyways. When you have a really crappy defender on you though (like in this instance) who you
know will bite, sometimes you don't even need to bother with the up-fake, like Pek didn't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKUNCgTVql4
