Ja Morant makes (x2) the no-dunk of the year

After doing what, without a doubt, will enter the top-10 of assists of the season, Ja Morant gave us, in yesterday’s defeat against the Brooklyn Nets, what could be the layup of the year.

He has returned from the shadows exactly as he left, with a physique that invites him to do outrageous things and with his sense of showmanship completely intact.

Last night he made a play that we see in the NBA very rarely and that players like JR Smith, John Wall and DeMar DeRozan have gotten quite a bit of mileage out of in the past.

We talk about the tray after a 360º jumpHere the attacker takes advantage of his jump towards the hoop to include a complete turn in the air ‘rotating around the defender’ as if they were two gears. A rectification to overcome the mark but not with his arms but with his entire body.

Ja Morant has taken the action to another level of improvisation and aesthetics. He has added a dunk feint to all of the above, and it was with his arm already fully extended to dunk it, when he turned around to finish with the other hand. Tremendous.

Is ‘Ya’ Morant more than Rose?
Two 360ºs in five minutes: which do you like best?
And now we come to the climax of the night. Because Morant didn’t just play the 360-degree trick once against Brooklyn, but twice in a span of five minutes; both were marvelous and with Nic Claxton and Cameron Johnson appearing on the non-posters.

And here’s the curious thing, and where subjectivity comes into play. Because what for this writer is the most special layup of the year (and the main reason for this post), the NBA places it in a sad sixth place among the ten best plays of the night, giving the first place, what a thing, to the other of his 360º (more fluid in its execution