What impressed me most about this speedy, spinning, 360 layup that John Wall converted Friday night against the Clippers was that it wasn’t simply done for style -- it was done out of necessity.
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In order to score the easy two points (and potentially avoid being annihilated by Matt Barnes), this was really the only way to get free of the defender without causing a collision. Impressive work by Wall, here, to be sure.