10 greatest signature moves in NBA history

#5 Shaq's Black Tornado

Nicknamed the Black Tornado by the man himself, the move is basically Shaq being the most dominant Physical specimen since Wilt Chamberlain in NBA history. There was practically no way of stopping this maneuver apart from fouling the big fella.

More well known, as the drop step, Shaq's unique physical attributes made it very difficult for anyone to stop it. He was too powerful and crucially, for such a large human being, extremely nimble. Someone would dump the ball down low to Shaq, who'd just back down any defender, spin and then dunk over them. It really didn't matter who was guarding him in the post, David Robinson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Tim Duncan, Ben Wallace, Dikembe Mutombo and so on, none of them could stop it.

What made it harder to defend, was that Shaq could easily spin the other way and hit the hook shot. Any premeditated move from the defender and he would just go the other way and convert. The obvious way to counter the move was, as expressed before, fouling him, which a lot of teams resorted to doing