From Anthony Edwards to Harrison Barnes, “Euro Stop” has become all anger in the American Professional League

The American Professional League is a counterpart league, and for a good reason: once the players discover something that succeeds, they are not ashamed to borrow it.

Thus, a step that may be just a single boycott or players can wander quickly throughout the league, and sometimes to the point that the originator barely gets a whiff. For two decades, for example, the step of the “euro step” that Mano Genopelli mastered is part of almost every arsenal of every perimeter. (It is also from Argentina, not Europe, but whatever) The feature is away from a distance.

Recently, there is a new modern step that builds on the euro step, moving the frequency on its way to the edge that almost every oceanic player works feverish to add his game.

But each direction starts somewhere, and when it started drilling, this seemed to have started … Nemanja bjelica?

Yes, really. The Serbian striker has long ended in the American Professional League and retired from his international career in March 2024, but his legacy lives in a step, which may have started with him. However, since then, it has been adapted, modified and improved to the point that it can not be almost identified from the point of its origin.

This step is what many players call “Decel Euro Decel”, in order to slow down in the end, but this is not a new phenomenon. Players like Kyle Anderson and Luka Donic were doing it for years.

Recently, a very specific application has become anger – what I call “the euro stop”. This is not just a player who slows down or rushes on his way to the edge, La Anderson or Dončić. Instead, the player stops in the middle of the step, and is often attached to an embarrassing manner with one leg in the air while the cannon flies.

Here is a prominent league practitioner, Harrison Barnes, San Antonio Spears, where they pulled it for a mistake on Jason Tatum Boston Celks. Notice how Barnes mixed in a fake shot in the middle of his stations and then stopped at the end, with his right -walled feet remained by air and planting the left leg, before going to shot it:

It took years of players such as BJEICA and Anderson Slo-Mo on their way to the edge to the types of steps and moods that Barnes and his teammate are routinely merged by Stephon Castle. In fact, Castle became one of the heavier league practitioners at the euro station, routinely stopped in the middle of leaving to defenders of wrong feet.

They are now teammates in San Antonio, but how we got from Barnes to the castle is a more clear path than you think, even if the final product is remarkably similar. Let’s let Barnes recount some of it:

“It is funny, 2019, I was in Dallas. Barnes said (although it seems that he indicates that Sacramento, at home, Nemanja Pelica hit me with this step. For this game On December 16, 2018). “So when it is traded to SAC, I and Billy became intimate friends, but he was always doing this step. He has somewhat marched during the steps, like” My brother, I am not a sporting like comrades, I will not go to you, so I must know Ways to do this, all these shots want to go and prohibit my shot so that I must know ways to treat my shot. “

In 2019, Barnes spent working to move with Noah Larosh’s assistant at the time, but it took some time for you. Barnes took it out from time to time, but not often as it was in the past two seasons in Sacramento and San Antonio. He was still discovering how to apply it to direct work.

“We have just worked on this step, we just tried to manipulate it, and different ways to mix the fluctuation of the shot,” Barnes said.

One of the first times he separated in a game, from paradoxes, was against his old coach in 2019-20.

“Once in Cleveland I did it at a break, like three people ran, and [former Kings coach] Barnes said Luke Walton was an assistant coach at the time and was screaming for travel. “I went directly and said,” I saw this step before! “

The most prominent, Barnes did not integrate the mid -lead shot until after a year and a half, and even this part he died almost upon arrival when he tried it in a game on November 7, 2022. Here is the clip:

“One of the first times I did was in Golden State. It has already been required for travel.” “I was like,” look, I didn’t put the other foot down. “When the ball appears, you are still moving; the referees are not used to this stage to see it. Now, many players do it, and they know what to search for, and they will not call it the same.”

This is one of the most controversial parts of the euro stoppage approach. Some coaches insist that it should be called a travel – especially when the opponent does – and the steps are nominated so that it is a somewhat technical process.

I asked Monte Makotchin, Vice President of the American Professional League, the head of referee development and training, on this topic, and explained everything that is going on this step and what makes it legally (usually). The key is that if the player reaches a complete stop, they will not be able to restart; Some players are approaching, especially with the moderate scrapes of the players such as Barnes, Minnesota Timberols, Anthony Edwards, but if you see the tape, they are still advancing.

“You can’t stop moving in the middle-really stop, not just too slow-and I am running another. They cannot stop there and do nothing, then decide that they will take another step.

“[But] Stopping in that second step is allowed. If they put the third step down, it should be called travel. If this step is slow and comes to the end in one foot in the second issue, they can stop there as long as it maintains this right foot [for a right-handed move with left leg planted] Even in the air.

Barnes was an early homogeneous, but the fans may not get used to seeing him these days. Players like Aaron Gordon of Denver Nags and Edwards also merged them and have a greater chance to reach the edge of Barnes. As he went to the 2023-24 season, Edwards tried it in the pre-season match in New York, and he worked so well that he kept it in his session:

Edwards continued to develop it, although he did not reach the edge of this season. The clip below may be the best example of the entire direction, and it is a completely dirty air conditioning of the Barnes movement. Edwards was in the midst of cut off the ball when he attacked the edge, stopped hard after one step instead of two and finished it with one leg.

Meanwhile, Gordon said this step has become important for him because of the “old” and that it occurred organically during the game. Unlike most players, the 29 -year -old moved with any of the legs as the oldest plant (most of the two faithful players will only “stop” on their left leg).

Gordon said: “I did it once in Phoenix, then I just clicked for me, and now you can do it in both directions,” Gordon said. “I would like to do it from the glass. It has just came normal.”

However, the real growth in the use of the euro station in the younger unit was in the league. La Roche, the assistant coach of Barnes in Sacramento, moved to Memphis and began teaching the young Gregs in the same steps. The rookie Giline Wells was a prominent early adoption.

I always used a slow step. This was a kind of thing. Wells said: “Everyone has compared me to Kyle Anderson because of my slowdown in throwing the ball,” said Wales. “Once I arrived in the league, they showed me how you can only get a zero step, keep one step, or hold two steps. That’s all we did with it [LaRoche]”

One of the other assistants with La Roche at Memphis in 2023-24 was the coach of the development of players Mike Nowes, who went to San Antonio this season where he started working with the castle … I guessed that … the euro stopped.

Castle has proven a thirsty student, breaking it early and often this year. In a game in early November, Mammoth Mammoth Mammoth Mammouth Kuller Kisler has twice with her:

“It is just a way to combat others,” said Buddin Bodzimsky of Golden State.

Podziemski said he started working on this step in his last year in college, but it took a lot of practice. He also referred to Dončić, Castle and two young Grizzlies – Scotti Pepin Junior and Santi Al -Tabama – as players who saw them use it effectively.

This list continues to get longer. This euro stop is a step that develops in real time. Like, what about a great athlete man does this from his unparalleled leg? Watch Evan Mobley from Cleveland takes her out immediately before the rest of the stars, as Naz Reed is the perplexing in Minnesota to his seat as if he was asking, “What is supposed to do Which – which? “

Since it transmits the work outside the court, in addition to the force in the left leg (in order to finish the right) to stop the momentum and keep a step without traveling, we may see a major change in the popularity of this step between the seasons that players can spend time in the laboratory … as Barnes did After meeting the lucky with Pelica. We will likely see more creative ways to withdraw this as well; Once the steps are destroyed, you can learn the number of options exist.

On that front, let’s give Barne the last word on the strategy and why it finally works.

“I think, physically, this is the practice – slow, methodological and just trying to get the steps. Barnes said:” It is just awareness of the major state. “There are many steps in the time of the blockers, who do not look at the ball. … Therefore, different ways are discovered … get this finish. You may add a fake ball, may be fake from the shot, and may start from the first step, and the second step, whatever it is. They are different ways to throw defense.

Perhaps, if he does enough players, things will come in full?

“When adults begin to get to know this and stay on it, the throwing of the regular ball is there,” said Barnes.

(Clarification: Dimitrius Robinson / Athlete; Pictures: Michael Gonzalez, Jordan Johnson, Darren Carrol