One Frame At A Time: BTT, Part Two
[Hit THE JUMP for the best moments from the Minnesota and Wisconsin games.]
HONORABLE MENTION
Still too many to list, though I crammed a bunch of extra GIFs into the countdown. Head on over to my gfycat library for more; you can keyword search by player, "Big Ten Tournament," and opponent.
20. Swish 'n Smack
More of Derrick Walton's fine work can be seen here and here.
19. Irvin Rides The Baseline
He's got that reverse going strong lately.
18. Wagner Flips The Script
The slip helped establish great post position, but I still be like dang. That doesn't happen often to Ethan Happ.
17. Xpectations Rising
Not sure whether the layup against the Big Ten's best shot-blocker...
...or the assist on this absurd passing angle...
...is the more encouraging sign.
16. Avert Your Eyes
The Big Ten's coach of the year is a bit flummoxed.
15. Death From Above
It's safe to say the drive-and-kick-and-drive-and-kick threw Wisconsin's defense off.
14. Ballgame
It's over.
Alright, now it's really over.
13. Go Go Gadget Arms
Reminder for NBA scouts: DJ Wilson is 5'9" and the rest is hair.
12. Bounce
Sure, let's post some more Walton assists.
11. Moe Buckets
10. SURPRISE BLOCK PARTY
Everybody's invited.
9. Zak Irvin Redemption Tour
From outside...
...and in.
8. Totally Intentional Windmill Layup
Heh.
7. Champs
Barring another remarkable tourney run, it's going to be tough to top this for pure, unadulterated joy.
6. Scream + Side-Eye
I wasn't even going to clip this and then I saw Andrew Dakich's face.
5. Shooter's Bounce
Doink.
4. Filthy
I have no idea how Walton managed to rise up square to the hoop after all that.
3. Dagger and Dance
In full:
The FWJ feature cut:
The shot deserves another look too:
2. LOL, Walton
Goodness gracious:
Wagner's reaction:
FRAMES OF THE GAMES: A DIZZYING DISPLAY
Derrick Walton, MVP.
Fred Wright-Jones, GIF MVP.
VOTE
Fred Wright-Jones is GIF Hall of Fame material already.
I want a camera on him at all times. I don't want to miss a thing that he does.
Great footwork.
He amuses me
So many great plays. Mo in indy.
From so many great ones?
because at the time it was so needed. This team is on fire. With the resurgance of Irvin and if Wagner can stay out of cheap foul trouble, this team will be very hard to beat. You can beat them only if you play your best "A" game and then maybe not even then
No one talks much about MAAR, but without him we wouldn't be B1G Champs.
Parts I & II are the greatest installments of this series ever. From here forward we'll just refer to these as "One" and "Two." Like The Godfather.
Filthy is the winner to me. So many broken ankels McDavid called him to say thanks.
It's hard to watch those clips and not think something special could happen over the next 3 weeks. Regardless of how many more games this team plays, this could go down as one of, if not my most, favorite MBB team for the amount they've grown this year in half a season and for the joy with which they've been playing.
To think this team is way better than the one that smoked Marquette and SMU to open the year...just wow.
Is there a way to default giphy's to pause? Opening up this post makes my browser crawl.
I'd default to that if I could. Hopefully they'll add a no autoplay embed option before too long.
but the dunk sequence is backwards. DJ's dunk was when it was REALLY over. Love the head shake after he hits the ground.
was the greatest. His face and laughing after that were hilarious.
They're all primed for another outburst and are totally flabbergasted. Fred Wright-Jones immediately goes hand-over-mouth, Dakich & X are frozen locked arm and arm, and Chris Hunter looks liked he's going to bust up laughing too.
The most awesome thing is that he can do a 360 aborted dunk turned into a windmill layup all in one move.
DJ is a human Gumby.
This collection of gifs is truly a masterpiece. Some of your finest work-- and some of FWJ's finest work as well.
FWJ is pretty great in ZI redemption (outside) gif too.
What a great collection!!
Wow, this is tough. One of the deepest fields ever. When Bounce is only seeded #12 and Surprise Block Party #10...
Scream + Side-eye and Avert Your Eyes would normally be considered classics but in this compilation they get lost in the crowd.
Love the Wisky players reation in 'Shooters Bounce', could have been called 'synchronized saddness'
But,voted for Zak redemption tour (full)...defly executed and sent Purdue reeling giving M mo to finish on top.
FWJ & The BenchMobb...PRICELESS!!
Simpson's game?
No. No they are not.
I do want to see him develop more of a jumper by next season. But for now, as a backup PG, he's terrific.
I requested "Avert Your Eyes" right after it happened, so I can't see how I vote for anything but that.
I'm glad Mo's is our German. I wouldn't like that German on another team.
I can't vote because I can't stop laughing at the FWJ gif's.
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