Hot Sauce, Stay out of Brazil

When I first started watching the And 1 Mixtape Tour on ESPN about 5 years ago, I remember finding myself perplexed by this guy called Hot Sauce. As the season went along, we found out that "Sizzle" spent every waking moment of his Atlanta existence dribbling a basketball, and on-court persona was defined by his ability to make defended look absolutely ridiculous, like these poor lads:

What confused me was two-fold: 1) How set up is the sequence of the game where he’s shaking people up? Throughout the season, the guy guarding Sauce during this part of the game was by far the least athletic player on a court filled with leapers. And 2) How would your pride allow for that to happen? Especially after he became a target and people wanted Sauce to come at them, he would do the same stupid moves, and guys kept falling for it. If you're a defender with any sense of defensive pride and a guy tried that and it was “impossible” to stop, wouldn't you deter any theatrics by getting a little physical, possibly a little forearm shiver or elbow?

Transition to Brazilian soccer, where a flair for athletic theater is evident any time the country’s pastime is involved (See: Pele, Ronaldihno, Kaka, etc.). There is apparently a young player named Kerlon who’s pretty good, and plays for the Junior National Team. He’s also got a Hot Sauce-like move that as this article states “confounds and irritates opponents by repeatedly bouncing the ball off his head to run past defenders”. Seems if you “irritate” your opponent in Brazil, this is what happens:

The Brazilians don’t play games. San Paolo better be scratched off Sauce’s hoop itinerary, doesn’t feel like his rhetoric is gonna fly down there.