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Many people still call Joe Hammond the best streetballer there ever was. He never spent a minute in the NBA or college basketball but he would beat just about anyone or anything when it came down to it. He had the accuracy of a programmed robot, but the swiftness and grace of a butterfly. No one nicknamed him butterfly though because he was deadlier than a cheetah. That's why he was officially named "The Destroyer"! He went to a tournament game at the Rucker Park a little late one time in 1971, showing up for the second half of the game to play on the losing team. The team coach manned him against their toughest opponent and the team thought they were done for sure. The next thing you know, Hammond banged fifty points onto the scoreboard faster than you could say "afro". He was offered a contract for fifty thousand dollars to play with the Lakersthat he turned down. His reason for denying it was because he said he could two hundred thousand dollars in a year selling weed and heroin. Then the next thing led to the next until he was locked up in late 1971 for eleven years on drug charges.

"Sauce" was the original name that would make people scared when they heard it. Philip Champion would shoot jump shots from deep out and yell "sauce" everytime he did it. It was kind of like a signature from him, saying "sauce shot the ball so it's goin in, don't worry about getting a rebound". Finally it got to the point where everyone just started calling him "sauce". If he screamed it and then missed people would make fun of him and call him "tomato sauce", but since he made it a lot more than he missed, people would call him "Hot Sauce"! At first he was known as Phil The Thrill but "Hot Sauce" is a lot easier to say. His mom and dad split when he was little so he was constantly going back and forth between Jacksonville and Colombus, FL, but wherever he went he stayed with the basketball in his hands. "All I wanted to do was play ball" he said. He would even steal the neighbours ball if he didn't have one at the time.

You Can't! Just playing. Check out the step by step way to make someone let you score.

1. -Isolate big man with help from team mates.
2. -Fake em out with a crossover.
3. -End crossover with a stiff leg.
4. -Step back and pump fake to get them in the air and off balance.
5. -Drive hard for a layup or shoot from where you're at.

The first and most important thing is if you have a team mate, then use him! Have your team mate set up a screen, isolate the big man. Then go to him like you're gonna drive to the right hard. Cross him over and then go to the left hard. Do a stiff leg (stop), and by this point, big man is trying to keep up but if you shoot he can still swat it like a bug. So step back and look up like you're gonna shoot but pump fake. As soon as you do this and if you do it right and with grace then you'll have a free second to go back up with the ball and shoot or drive in hard for a lay-up. It don't matter if you're 6'6" or 5'. This works almost everytime that you do it right! Good luck guys. Also if you're up against bigger people in streetball it doesn't really matter. If he's bigger than his head gots to be bigger right? Give him a forehead bounce pass to self to confuse him.