YouTube Gold: The Brilliant Passing Of Manu Ginobli

Great passers change everything In our ACC preview of Virginia, we compared St. Thomas transfer Thomas Rohde to NBA legend Manu Ginobli. Well, sort of, anyway. Rohde started at St. Thomas and, like Ginobli, he was clearly underrated. It’s highly unlikely that he’ll be anywhere near the player that Ginobli was, but there is a common element to their game and that’s passing. Great passers can entirely change the game. You can see it here with Rohde as he just guts the Oral Roberts defense. People have always criticized Larry Bird’s foot speed, but no one ever criticized his handspeed…