Ball Handling in Basketball (1946)

DEMONSTRATES THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BALL HANDLING IN BASKETBALL, INCLUDING THE STANCE, GRIP, FINGERTIP CONTROL & PASSING.
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[@ioseph828]

Anybody else think a time travel basketball movie would be cool?

[@allacates9211]

Anthony Joseph hell yeah great idea, I was planning to actually travel back in time but a movie would definitely be easier 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@dLw920]

No

[@trichokekory2286]

Bro make one

[@chicagoblackhawks9840]

I'd rather have LeBron in that than Space Jam 2

[@chicagoblackhawks9840]

And then it was actually LeBron that fathered Wilt Chamberlain

[@adzfrost2710]

1:20 now that is what you call a textbook play. That was actually a really good play.

[@yoshipower457]

I was actually surprised when I saw that

[@4Scoot5]

adz frost ikr

[@dartmouthhoop]

Agreed, nice backdoor cut action...we've run similar type plays at a HS I coach at

[@davidladinou.8827]

Friendly reminder that the pick and roll will STILL be an offensive marble 100 years in the future

[@treheard3032]

Yeah it was clean

[@cube_2593]

0:45 this is some spurs level ball movement

[@rickv6386]

They could still beat the Knicks

[@lavarball61]

by about 50

[@SICKBOYONYT]

Won’t be the case in a year or 2

[@lavarball61]

@@SICKBOYONYT ^another delusional Knicks fan

[@zectation]

😂

[@braedenlyons8068]

@@lavarball61 another delusional lavar ball

[@AustinCasey]

In 70 years people are gonna watch AD, KD, and LeBron videos and talk about how they would’ve been the GOAT in these times. Lol

[@dLw920]

No

[@AustinCasey]

1995 GetJiggyWitIt Lol And best believe the people in this video didn’t think it would either. It will.

[@1pchamp284]

Austin Casey I mean we’ve change how u shoot dribble different plays drawling fouls adding three pointer and better fundementals what more could change

[@hetherm9171]

1p champ they did the same thing it keeps evolving

[@1pchamp284]

Het Herm can u speak clear English what u mean they did the same thing smh that Means the game didn’t change

[@lucasrichards7247]

3:35 that’s how they shot back then 😂😂😂 boy the game has come a long way

[@richardarevalo4039]

Origin of shawn marion's release,🤣🤣🤣

[@MiniMotoJohn]

LukeBoi1 ik and it’s terrible to

[@ZHXOZ]

i think you can't leave the floor when shooting too

[@OMOMOMOMOM190]

It was still wet af 😂

[@westheking12]

@@ZHXOZ only on free throws

[@kgbarrett1521]

Dude, I wish I could travel back in time and play with these guys. I'd be amazing

[@1pchamp284]

U would still be a dishwasher

[@Vrozini]

@@1pchamp284 she'd probably whoop you.

[@1pchamp284]

@@Vrozini lmao no she wouldn't u simp

[@hakeemolajuwonBESTROCKET]

Youre a woman sorry Male athlete in basketball>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> female athlete in basketball despite the era

[@ItachiUchiha-qm6pz]

hakeem olajuwon BEST ROCKET my cousin would DESTROY YOU

[@km_1911]

Imagine The Professor playing against these guys 😂😂

[@june6820]

They gon stake him for witch craft

[@giziemcbarns]

There were different rules. He'd definitely be called for palming or some variation of traveling or double dribble. Don't get me wrong tho these dudes sucked ass

[@pradayou5405]

Each and every wnba player would cook tf out of these boys

[@pradayou5405]

@@giziemcbarns the professor wouldn't even need to use his handle. Just use his speed these dudes aren't stopping the professor even in straight line drives

[@iluvjollibee]

A lot of em will have broken ankles especially with those shoes they’re wearing

[@cloudedjourney]

I was actually surprised at how similar a lot of the fundamentals they use are. Layups, give and go, setting screens. They are better than i expected!

[@Johnkoth]

Well the Fundamentals is the basics. Invented before the NBA existed. Tim Duncan has 1950s shots and other Fundamentals.

[@MrMarolando]

4:05 😂😂😂 suspect

[@Woopanoodle]

😂😂

[@cjdjdd]

There all dead by now

[@patchmadegr33n14]

Ik

[@arodandjeter1]

I’m fucking dead 😂😂😂

[@yoadam8273]

M no it’s not

[@jeepneygang]

I'm surprised they didn't stop for a cigarette and coke break. In 1940s announcer voice *If you're feeling a little tired and off your game like little Billy, nothing beats the refreshing smoothness of a Marlboro slim and the vitamin L in cocaine-a-cola. With these little Billy you will be beating the master race in no time.

[@mitsubishilancer17]

So many people saying they would dominate, but games were called differently back then and if you grew up in that era you would be playing like them too. And if they grew up in this current era they would train to play like today.

[@kzdm5255]

The point is if we, as we are in this time, traveled back in time and played against them... average basketball player would stomp. Don’t be so short-sided my friend. The world is vast.

[@mitsubishilancer17]

@@kzdm5255 What I was trying to say was that people should not disrespect them. Without them basketball would not be what it is today. (And it is short-sighted not short-sided). I am not trying to argue just an opinion.

[@andreingramakadjscrewrip7372]

@@kzdm5255 No...shit? That's like saying I would instantly win the Nobel Peace Prize because of all the knowledge I currently have

[@e-rab_malibu34]

A good player now if even from d3 could dominate back then. The KZbin comment section idk lol. These guys have good fundamentals look at some of those jab steps lol... and guys now can't defend a running hook much less from someone 6'5" or taller

[@terrancevanliew1814]

@@kzdm5255 No. You wouldn't be able to move without traveling or fouling. You don't know how to play that style of basketball.

[@JustAnother99plus1]

1. Basics are everything 2. If these players played nba streets vol 1 their minds might explode

[@kingofeverything2159]

feeling warm watching this, those times just seem warmer literally LMAO. You only work and enjoy life and go in summer to play some ball, lovely.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

U do realize there was world war just a year prior

[@Jesuspaid4oursins]

They had their own problems

[@pere13]

Woah people actually used to pass in basketball

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

They still kinda do

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

@@raptorfromthe6ix833 Lmaoo

[@MaybeDay4]

That is because they are only limited to 1 dribbling. Basketball rules were different back then.

[@jeffw1267]

Now I know where Pistol Pete got his ideas from!

[@kylehanscom4233]

And his socks!

[@psydoof]

It’s crazy how much sports have evolved in a short amount of time. Popularity, rules, players, etc.

[@nicford1486]

People do not realize how different the rules were prior to the 70's and 80's

[@4Scoot5]

Hey i have a que, what era do you think is the most physical?

[@nicford1486]

@@4Scoot5 not sure I know enough to answer that, but probably the 90's.

[@4Scoot5]

@@nicford1486 i think the 60s

[@angrymobsters1599]

@@4Scoot5 basically any era before the 80s, the 80s had some physical stuff half of the decade, the other half not so much. Current decade and 2010s was the worst. 90s and early 2000s were rough too though. Just spacing of the the 3pt line cleans up the game a bit. I would say 30s and 40s because of ridiculous strict ass rules like one dribble or no dribble movement allowed and the lane was a whopping 6 feet instead of the 16 feet which is the current length not adding the 3pt line since the corner 3s to the rim go about 22 feet. In the 50s and 60s they added it to like 12 feet but still no 3 pt line plus the NBA was already considered the best league in pro basketball by then basically so the competition was even fiercer than the 30s and 40s. Jerry West broke his nose like 5 times in that span of the decade of the 60s not including other injuries like broken hand, cut eye, hamstring, sprained ankle, injured knees, etc. Keep in mind with the resources of medicine and treatment of the 60s. These injuries took longer to heal and equipment was absolute garbage to use for healing. Like masks and casts for example. People be saying that they would dominate in that era lmao, try playing with dribble restriction and movement, no 3pt line, on a 6ft lane. You gonna regret touching a basketball.

[@kzdm5255]

Nobody would be able to stop me if I went back then lol

[@patchmadegr33n14]

Lmao

[@argentinoimigrantepulgosop6662]

I think everyone could

[@jaygamz113]

No bud I think you would get ur ass handed to you

[@Aduysvmncmkouyf]

@@jaygamz113 proof

[@brucebanner4157]

Nah cuz the rules would f u up

[@anantapradhana717]

I just love the way they pass

[@LoganBasketball2]

This is incredible man

[@mitchdellsantos2956]

4:32 Paul george: that's a bad shot.

[@Justin_G_Bryan]

A brilliant video to demonstrate the evolution of the game and just how much it has changed for the better/worse.

[@LinkRocks]

You just wanted to yell at a cloud.

[@fica1137]

Game got less classy over the years

[@freepromoter4901]

The paved the way for the current basketball 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@danielbuezo9910]

I really wish these guys can see how basketball is played nowadays for the first time.

[@dutdut2.059]

they’d prob be shook lmao

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

Man of them are still alive and besides many thing we see as common in basketball nowadays we’re pretty much being tested during 40s to 70s

[@baguettemagique-4609]

@@raptorfromthe6ix833 Then theyd probably be around 100 years old now

[@modjohnsenglishdisco]

Most of these guys lived to see Jordan. And a few only recently passed.

[@Imrightyourwrong]

@@baguettemagique-4609if they were 85 in 2008 then they basically saw it all right before curry

[@hothiphopnewz6016]

Old heads will tell you these guys would destroy LeBron😂😂😂

[@jaygamz113]

Sander modern nba is soft lmao back when jordan played was when it was aggressive

[@themaster4578]

Vuhxo No when jordan played the nba started being soft.. The nba started being gay in late 70s and the nba became gay in mid 90s and become transgender in 2004

[@daddykzreadytoplay1568]

The Master you’re just fat, thats why

[@jesmondlagado7475]

If LeBron got thrown in there, he would be beaten up badly every game and the refs won’t care cause they were racist, the fans would hate him, he wouldn’t be able to dunk or do most dribble moves or euro steps, and the league would make rules against him just like they did with Wilth. Now everyone is too scared to contest his dunks or play physical, and even if they did, the refs and the league would be biased and let Leflop go away with fouls. IMO, the league is damn soft now.

[@themaster4578]

DaddyKZreadytoPLAY What do u mean?

[@mikewalters3048]

Almost all the professional sports of today started out a century or more ago as games to be played by ordinary teenage boys. The sports have gone through an evolution due mostly to the games being played by superior athletes who have made a mockery of the original game.

[@rockyhouston3677]

That play at about 1:35 was so smooth

[@chuckHart70]

The thing that EVERYONE forgets is 99% of the moves we love, would have been traveling back in 1946. And technology. Those shoes suuuuucked.

[@jimmyharding3278]

Lmao that’s a lie, I ain’t ever seen nobody in the 40s doin between the legs, behind the back, Euros, step backs. I think you mean like the jab step, hooks, pump faking

[@Johnkoth]

2 steps is legal now. Back then 2 steps is a travel, Eurostep would be a travel, crossover dribble is a travel. No 3 pt line.

[@friendswitdadealer]

@@jimmyharding3278they couldn’t because it would be a travel. So why even try?

[@lukekiefer5964]

@@jimmyharding3278That’s not a lie- almost every possession in the NBA today would be considered a travel, carry or charge back then. Not that the evolution of that game hasn’t been fun to watch, but that’s the reality; every play today would be illegal 60 years ago.

[@jcb4826]

​@@jimmyharding3278 you really need to watch a video called, the evolution of basketball.

[@corsair7158]

1:00 you'd see that in modern day basketball. Now it's just more snappy and quicker.

[@ChrisDodges123]

This was 55 years AFTER basketball was created. That distance is equivalent to this video and 2001‼️

[@chubbs.mp3435]

What? 2001 was 21 years ago and the video came out in 2017. So it would be 16 years not 55.

[@suskris1]

From that video was made until 2001 is 55 years. That what’s he meant

[@vergietan5663]

NICE PLAY

[@lance_wavy]

Astig kasi 1891 nagsimula basketball sa US tapos 1897 naintroduce dito sa pinas bali halos kasabayan lang natin sila sadyang di lang talaga patas sa tangkad at bilis

[@camthejock]

I didn’t know they had slow motion footage back then

[@jonmoore9015]

Slow motion was available as soons as they had video. Just a matter turning the film slower. It actually took a while before they could reliably get film to play at normal speed consistently

[@thevillageidiot6969]

@@jonmoore9015 interesting

[@PoliticusRex632]

For those slamming these players. This was an instructional video meant for Elementary School students.

[@petrpom6424]

School bus creeping up at 4:02 anyone else notice this phenomena?

[@SmoovyNovaFan]

what do u mean?

[@ejc8933]

There’s no School bus??

[@emangrizzliesfan]

nigga that's a car 🤣

[@MukoroJr]

the game has came a long way

[@destdrom]

I’m going to use these technics in my next tryout just to see what it’ll look like

[@vashtheflashstampede]

You will be goat

[@ZombiesAteMyTestes]

If we were born on that era, we'll play like them. We don't have knowledge of how to play the game like today.. So don't ever say you'll beat these guys.. They'll kill u with those pass

[@spitzfire1107]

Movements are so simple but effective back then.

[@blackmamba___]

These guys would be in awe to see someone do a killer cross over snatch back and then no look behind the back pass for an easy posterize 360 tomahawk dunk.

[@timmancillas8326]

I mean most people today would too

[@lukekiefer5964]

@@timmancillas8326They would call it a carry, then a travel if they did what you described. Hence why players didn’t do that back then. Also where did you get the impression that crossovers or ball handling didn’t exist back then? Have you ever watched Cousy or West?

[@hoani3264]

They won't even know what it is ​@@lukekiefer5964

[@Daniel-nz9ml]

​@@lukekiefer5964no they wouldn't shutup they'd be in shock like wtf

[@chesterjackson8682]

If I could go back in time I would put the scoring title out of reach for the future.

[@Johnkoth]

No you would not. Scoring was very hard to do back then. Crossover dribble was illegal, no 3pt shot, the basketball had stitches and bounced unpredictably when bounced fast. The defenders could legally fill up the lane with players. You would have no room for a layup and would have to settle for a jumper 2pter. Also there was no shotclock and if you score to much they would pass the ball around for minutes and not let your time get it. The games avg 60PPG per team. If you score alot they will triple you and not allow you get open much. You would average under 10 PPG. They would beat the crap out of you with elbows, punches and pushing you around. Back then basketball was more physical than today.

[@chesterjackson8682]

@@Johnkoth You're probably right. I used to get called for carrying before the Allen Iverson era. I stand corrected

[@quangos9455]

Imagine if uncle drew time traveled to this time and played them

[@blackcapone187]

He would have gotten thrown in prison by the end of the game after dropping 90.

[@i.ovlogs4141]

@@blackcapone187 LMAO

[@AK-dp5sx]

Unfortunately he would not have been allowed to play :(

[@wanderingoutlaw2083]

Then he would have to play by the rules at that time and adapt to that style of basketball he wouldn't be able to just freestyle handles

[@Gearhead_47]

When no one is a handler everyone passes good times

[@angrymobsters1599]

Yup, back before aau existed and before players didn't use the whole shot clock for an iso just to airball

[@avery94onabase]

@@angrymobsters1599 you're not seriously romanticizing this bullshit

[@sendoh873]

I think I used that shooting form or something similar to it in 1st grade because I didn't have enough strength and power as an under 5 foot tall kid. Then I shot the ball with normal form after I grew a little bit taller

[@WeCube1898]

Is that a Triple Post (Triangle Offense) Play

[@randommf8367]

Is the camera black and white or it's just them?

[@spacecoast4890]

KD getting lynched if he pull up from 30 back then

[@alvinmoneyberg887]

yo😂😂😂😂

[@Oscar-qk6zh]

What would the point of pulling from so deep be?

[@eliezerferraris942]

I am so astonished of the fact that i ended myself here in this video i dont even play basketball and its 1:32 am est and i have get 6 am in morning.

[@Stevenn12]

Imagine 1987 jordan is here

[@nahidelsanto]

Are they wearing All Stars?

[@methodikul7625]

2:03 Nah chief that's wrong

[@llthll]

Dude this is from 1946

[@lance_wavy]

Thats a sick ass play at 1:47

[@karelltulod3079]

I love basketball

[@swim3699]

Those kicks

[@JStarStar00]

This was a year before John Wooden took over as UCLA coach.

[@jonathanbeatrice8317]

4:37 ...or if you're Jokic, you can just stand there and toss the ball from behind the three point line, that works for him

[@lilbrocko]

Imagine if people still played like this

[@johnthomas1353]

I'd be a hall of famer in the NBA

[@hetherm9171]

I mean basketball was bigger then

[@eziauditore]

What fundamentally changed? It's as if a diffent sport

[@lilbrocko]

@@eziauditore Peoples playing styles have drastically changed

[@Jesuspaid4oursins]

@@eziauditore People started being more creative and found more efficient ways to score, and athleticism started playing a bigger role.

[@oseo1625]

Imagine watching this exact video in the year 3001

[@Jshaw6614]

To think this was before Wooden was at UCLA is crazy lol

[@iamnaitsirk3091]

This is a laboratory inspired court with a Florence flask painted on the court.

[@dogeisverycoolyes8265]

OML HE GOT A BAG FR FR 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@localasian7043]

3:58 Me and the bois sneaking around for beans

[@manuela.roscas9783]

If im there at that time.. I play like a beast

[@oscarvasquez6542]

No you wouldn't yiu would play just like them the game was still young it has evolved so much

[@deucewayne449]

Oscar Vasquez I think he means if he could go back in time with the skills of today.

[@oscarvasquez6542]

@@deucewayne449 how is he going to do that a time machine?

[@redxslayer6922]

Oscar Vasquez bro just think about it if he could go back in time and play like he can now he would dominate the game idiot kid.

[@ejc8933]

@@redxslayer6922 ikr I’m late and all but I lost braincells reading his comments

[@matthewgabbana1478]

Nowadays, they don’t meet the ball anymore....

[@zeoberlerb6371]

op playz

[@videos4mydad]

Its amazing the kind of excercises that are done, because most likely most of these players had never touched a basketball before this.

[@jarradhurley4866]

You'd be surprised. Go watch NBA games from the 50s. This is about the skill level they were at.

[@ambienthangout]

Right, they picked all that up in a couple of hours 🙄🙄

[@TemperTemper...]

Here's how you feel the ball and how to hold the ball. If you follow everything in this video you too will achieve geekhood.

[@blazingbattlehawk9626]

Thought it would be unhelpful my todays standered but turns out while tactics have evolved and teams innovated new techniques the core was always there

[@Joe-ve4hg]

God bless everyone

[@AshleyShaeffer]

these guys would smash the wizards this year.

[@MrBen51309]

0:44 Looks like a scene from High School Musical...

[@chasesmith4803]

Why they moving like video game characters

[@ronniecozzi8385]

The game was only 55 years old at this point.

[@JusTabzs]

i wanna watch these ppl play in real time

[@GoodnightGoodbye1223]

Here’s a thought: make this PRIMARY SOUCE the template for a illustration displaying how the game works if you were explaining it to an alien. Update the video every 50 years…..from here on out. Obviously we missed the 1941, and the 1991 update. But make one in 2021 now then again in 2071 and use this as a basketball bible going forward.

[@aberossyverio]

Street ball has joined the chat

[@freddyfurrah3789]

Bob Cousy: the Houdini of the hardwood.

[@funnyandvidsforkids9247]

Now I know where to go come first if time machine will invent

[@farhanlabib925]

Me: *time travels back to 1940s to say seams and how you hold the ball don't matter* All the players at the basketball game: BLASPHEMY!!!

[@MrRufusRToyota]

Triangle!

[@krispia236]

Great BallMovement before now to many ballhog players

[@OlJackBurton]

Those 9 foot rims though...

[@tapia6518]

2019??

[@iovicyrblx6879]

George Tapia yeee Bro it’s pretty crazy how we here in November of 2019 watching old ball handling

[@jethz1665]

If I was playing at that time, I would be the Goat.

[@yozay664]

Same like I want to time travel and make my career there😭

[@glenwilson5616]

@@yozay664 haha back then you didn't get paid to play ball. That's why they sucked so bad. Without these dorks, there would be no Bird, no MJ, no Kobe and no LeBron. The rules have changed intensely since this time as well.

[@zierxurxes]

This could be a Japanese anime special move. Finger tip control

[@housesports000]

I love how everybody in the comment section mistakes these guys in the 40’s as in the same level of skill as 60’s legends like Wilt and Bill, they also make the stupid misconception players like these are what “oldheads” think can take over the game today when they talk about the legends of the 60’s and 70’s not the fucking 40’s

[@Jmoney.901]

It juss be the lil kids they got time to learn

[@collin945]

Imagine Kemba walker and harden in these times

[@jaygamz113]

Harden is soft asf

[@4Scoot5]

@@jaygamz113 foul. You talked so thats a foul,

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

Lmao he’d just call a foul just by the way they play

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

Lmao he’d just call a foul just by the way they play

[@hoani3264]

Kemba got nice crosses

[@fvkz]

I feel like we'd all be Iversons in that era or something (assuming we had a time machine).

[@jaygamz113]

U would get destroyed

[@Aduysvmncmkouyf]

@@jaygamz113 nah todays basketball faster

[@jaygamz113]

Hardyz Studios today’s basketball is soft yeah people are more skilled but you see more 3 balls then people driving to the paint

[@andreingramakadjscrewrip7372]

@@Aduysvmncmkouyf The pace in the 60s and 80s were higher on average than today's game...

[@Aduysvmncmkouyf]

@@andreingramakadjscrewrip7372 Or the film is sped up

[@jacobmoore8569]

Although it appears they are taking it too seriously, I can guarantee turnovers occur a whole lot less frequently. Catching the ball one handed on a post-up, although technically easy, would no doubt be more safer caught with two hands. So I can see why they perfect their craft. You could say, the game became lazy in the pass catching department. Think about how many turnovers you see rolling off a guys hands.

[@tenji..]

I lost a couple of brain cells by read. Cat is now in the freezer

[@carterbilbro4615]

Nah more turnovers lower field goal percentage

[@anthonyma8098]

It doesn’t work that way. Post man uses his other hand/arm to seal off the defender.

[@jaredb9523]

They look like a tense people after a war or depression or something giving a game to play by who knows who. Not a game to play to acuire fame or money or be the best like today's reasons but a game to play to give boys a way to release their testosterone and learn to be physical without fighting or killing.. Just my two cents. I have no idea what part of history this is that's jus as I see it

[@stronginthewind]

@@jaredb9523 Great analysis and hilarious at the same time.

[@LebronJames-gh3gd]

1:33 triangle offense before the triangle offense existed

[@stonersimpson_]

Show this to the aau

[@billrobinson198]

My dad was a freshman at UCLA that year. He was playing cricket though, so maybe not against any of these guys.

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

Your dad was a tough guy. Cricket in those days was no joke.

[@janjablonsky]

A time travel back to the mid-40s would be a great idea; at least on paper. It could be either a twelve-year-old kid or a seventy-year-old man armed with the skills of modern-day basketball. Either would be far superior to any player from the earlier period.

[@wanderingoutlaw2083]

That time traveler would have to play a different style and different rules

[@FcItsSpartan]

Bro I would be the greatest basketball player of that era

[@alvarogonzalez3104]

So this is how Basketball used to be played before dribbling... interesting

[@gerryomo9515]

How come they didn’t dribble like the players dribble today?

[@SevenUP901]

@ 3:34 shawn marion 🤣

[@4Scoot5]

Greatest form ever though

[@donnamylove]

UCLA on the lighter Jerseys. Perhaps John Wooden watched this instrumental video.

[@beaudure01]

Is this the same commentator who did the Disney cartoon with Goofy skiing?

[@andrewroumell414]

Vintage White Chocolate.