Olympics Nice Pass Week
Welcome to WYWG’s special Olympics edition of Nice Pass Week
This is a nice pass:
Alexey Shved to Sasha Kaun
(via cjzero)
At this point, I think it is fair to say that Ricky Rubio is a mortal lock for the Nice Pass Hall of Fame.
This, my friends, is what is known in the trade as a “nice pass”.
This pass is so nice you could take it home and introduce it to your mother.
It’s just a little too late for Nice Pass Week, and the video quality is terrible, but I just can’t NOT post this nice pass. If you’re super pressed for time, skip to 0m 45s.
(Source: youtu.be)
To round off Nice Pass Week, here is a great example of how you can pass nicely in sports other than basketball1. Quick hands, indeed.
(via walesrugby)
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Yes, the final pass before the try was a bit forward. But did you know it is an actual rule in rugby that when a sequence of play is that good you are allowed one forward pass? True story. ↩
(Source: youtu.be)
Wesley Matthews to Nicolas Batum
In case you haven’t noticed, it is Nice Pass Week here on While You Were Gone.
(via: Tas Melas)
Is this just another nice pass, or is this the best pass ever made?
Danilo Gallinari to Kenneth Faried
This is also a nice pass.
This is also a nice pass.
This is a nice pass.
Joy.
This just makes me so happy.
“Yeeeah big fella! Way to represent the big fellas! Way… to repre… sent… the big fellas!”
(via The Painted Area)
I remember at the end of the ’99 season, SLAM magazine did a three way cover for their choice of Rookie of the Year. Vince Carter was on one, Paul Pierce was on another, and Jason Williams was on the third. I ended up with the Vince Carter cover, but I would really have preferred the J-Will one at the time.
Paul Pierce is now the reigning Finals MVP, having won a championship with KG, Jesus Shuttlesworth, and the rest of the Celtics. Vince Carter is somewhat of a joke these days, although it will always remain true that he has jumped over the head of a 7’2” Frenchman.
But Jason Williams, it seems, is hanging up his kicks. He hasn’t been the White Chocolate that you see in the video above for some time, of course, but still, for me, it’s kinda sad.
J-Will also exemplifies the dawning of the YouTube era for me, in one particular way. I remember after the Rookie Challenge game at the NBA All-Star weekend in 2000, everyone was going crazy online about his “elbow pass”. Stuck here in the UK, I had no idea what this meant at the time, and could only guess at how amazing it must have been.
A few years later, of course, a quick search for Jason Williams elbow will instantly find you footage of the pass in question. It is pretty badass. I wish I had seen it at the time.
Thanks for all the highlights, Jason. I’m not sure what your legacy will be, but I for one am grateful for the little joys you created on the court.
