Euro Step Explanation

[Kitaman]

What exactly is this move? Is it something that was initiated in the European Leagues (pro and/or amateur)?

Is it a legal travel or something else?

Curious because announcers use this term so often nowadays and seemed to arrive about a decade or so ago. I'm thinking Ginobli of the Spurs.

 

[DonaldDraper]

Puts the defenders weight on their heels when you are going up for a lay in.

 

[tykurez]

Euro step - Wikipedia

 

[MexicoHusky]

I actually think God Shamgod from Providence was an early pioneer

 

[tcf15]

Works in football, too:

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

I actually think God Shamgod from Providence was an early pioneer

The Shammgod, not the Eurostep.

 

[Leebo]

It's not a travel, it's just a way of making the two steps you are allowed longer with a change in speed.

 

[Kitaman]

Euro step - Wikipedia

Call me strange, weird or whatever but I rely on my Yarders for basketball info.

 

[Stinger92860]

It's not a travel, it's just a way of making the two steps you are allowed longer with a change in speed.

I remember the day when 2 steps was a travel. Anyone else recall when you were allowed 1.5 steps MAX?

 

[CTBasketball]

I actually think God Shamgod from Providence was an early pioneer

He created the Shamgod. Euro step was around before him.

 

[gtcam]

I remember the day when 2 steps was a travel. Anyone else recall when you were allowed 1.5 steps MAX?

When the hell did it change??????
And why wasn't I told????

 

[Leebo]

I remember the day when 2 steps was a travel. Anyone else recall when you were allowed 1.5 steps MAX?

Is this some kind of joke about your age or something.

 

[auror]

The key to the Eurostep is to gather at full speed before the first step, which makes a defender start to think vertical because you can't take too many more steps. Your first step should be to a side but into their body, and since you've gathered, it makes the defender more likely to commit to that direction and if they take a backwards step their weight likely shifts to their heels (or at least the center of gravity shifts back). If you pass them after they turned slightly, now they need to turn 180* when you only had to change your angle of approach like 30*. Even if they don't take a step, you are on the balls of your feet and can take a long step which creates separation. Try taking a long step as a defender with your weight shifted back or weight on your heels. It doesn't work.

TLDR: Gather first. Center of gravity. Angles. Long steps.