Here all eyes are on Pau Gasol as he makes the catch, allowing Dwight Howard to sneak behind the defense. But sometimes they can miss the fact that there is more than big man on the floor. When a big man catches the ball in the paint, the attention of the defense is rightly focused.

Sometimes explicit misdirection is overkill and the simple threat of an offensive player's talent can be enough to distort the defense. He's caught completely unaware as Griffin back-cuts him into oblivion. Griffin's defender stays high, expecting his help to be needed on Crawford. Griffin adds his own theatrical flair by waving Crawford forward as he approaches. Here, Blake Griffin comes off a high pick-and-roll with Chris Paul, and appears headed for the corner to set a pin-down screen for Jamal Crawford. Misdirection is often a key element in offensive success and it can be a key ingredient in a well-constructed alley-oop. SPALDING 2015 Alley oop Basketball - Size: 7 only for Rs 1449. Here the Pacers swing the ball to Roy Hibbert in the high post just as Paul George loses his man on the opposite side of the floor, heading for the rim. The alley-oop can take many forms and shapes, stretched into different angles and incorporating different parts. The simplest, and most common, presentation of the alley-oop is a back cut from the wing. It can inflate a team's offensive spirit in the same way that it can break a team's defensive one. It lets the defense know that you'll be doing what you want, when you want and that they may as well get out of the way. From an offensive perspective, an alley-oop is an emphatic statement of physical superiority.

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