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Originally Posted by Bad Zebra
Anyone have a theory as to why it's seldom called at high level D1?
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Out on a limb here, but maybe there's some influence from the Non-Basketball Association involved.
Recently, I've seen couple coaches teach a version of the spin move that was clearly illegal. One referred to it as the "Earl Monroe" move, so I went back and looked at some old Pearl footage. The coach had been teaching a move where the player essentially whips the ball around the body with one hand while making a running reverse pivot - looked illegal as hell to me. Monroe, on the other hand, incorporated a dribble into his spin, switch his dribbling hand as the ball was behind him - gorgeous and perfectly legal to my eye.
See:
YouTube - Ultimate Earl "The Pearl" Monroe MIX