4. Deron Williams
Looping a basketball behind your back is tough. Go out and try it right now. Maybe not right now, but after you finish this list. It is hard when you are trying to play a pickup game with your buddies, let alone at full speed during an NBA game.
Crawford makes this looks way too easy, but that is why he has a list of top five crossovers.
You will notice a theme during this list: defenders having to make very quick decisions and always making the wrong one. It happened with Wesley Matthews in the last entry and again here with Deron Williams here.
If you watch or play in the NBA, you naturally assume that the 17-year veteran is going to take the ball to the outside of the lay and probably try to finish with a floater. Crawford makes you question things. After he hits Williams with a behind the back dribble, he reverses course to the middle of the lane. To finish things off, it is a not at all easy floater over the big man.
I know it is a cliché, but watching the three-time Sixth Man of the Year work is like watching poetry in motion. Those who are not into basketball might not appreciate it, but those of us who follow the association is just astounded by it.
For our number three entry, let’s stick with his New York Knick years. This time, however, we move to an eastern conference opponent.