The Hesitation Step was common on the court, and the Little Jump Hesitation Step was one of the most common and practical ways to get past a defender.
Because both feet landed at the same time during the little jump, it was like resetting your footwork. That let you chain into any move afterward. Even players with less polished footwork found the Little Jump Hesitation Step smooth and effortless.
And when you landed, both feet pushed off almost simultaneously, giving you plenty of explosiveness and letting you get past your defender faster.
So for any perimeter player, the Little Jump Hesitation Step was practically an essential weapon in their arsenal.
The lower-level players in the crowd didn't think much of it, but the two-meter-tall Ponytail Man narrowed his eyes slightly.
Though his in-game character was a muscular man over two meters tall who played center, in real life he played guard.
And he was a starting guard in CUBA.
He just hadn't pulled off many in-game dunks during real-life matches, so after entering the game, he created a two-meter-tall character. He wanted to throw down some dunks and find out what it felt like to posterize someone.
He knew the Hesitation Step inside and out.
Back when his coach had him practice the move, he'd done it well over a thousand times.
And he'd watched other guards use it on the court thousands upon thousands of times.
But when he saw Flower Monk's Little Jump Hesitation Step just now, he couldn't help but feel a stir. The guy's move was incredibly smooth.
And he made it look effortless.
Some players seemed to do the move just for the sake of doing it.
They were too deliberate, putting too much force into it.
By contrast, Flower Monk's Little Jump Hesitation Step