Without detailing it to much, there was a way to take certain dribble moves, and cross overs and cancel part of the animation for an unnaturally fast dribble. It's completely different than the launch animations. Essentially because there's no difference between Jog/sprint animations other than sprint being faster. Essentially you could go from standstill to full sprint instantly with no start up other than a brief pause.
A lot if people have mistook this for "Launching out of a dribble" or "First Steps", which it was not. Only certain animations could get it. I've deleted so many guys off the friends list after getting involved in a bunch of group messages about "This game dead, 2k don't know Basketball".