Kazuya Hara of Kirisaki Dai Ichi has speculated that Kuroko uses blinking to bypass the defense, but this has been proven wrong. Kuroko bends over in a specific angle at drives following a specific route, that the opponent's eyes can't follow. Midorima explains the mechanics of the skill during Seirin's second match against Touou the move itself is basically a cross-diagonal move (a duck-in) to where the opponent's eye field can't see.
During the second season of the anime series and the eleventh volume of the manga, he developed a new technique, called the "Vanishing Drive".
This the reason why Akashi didn't teach him how to develop his basketball skills. Because he has learned new skills like the "Phantom Shot" and the "Vanishing Drive", his lack of presence wears out, because these skills require to hold the ball and the crowd turns their attention on the one who holds it. Also, his misdirection is inspired from the book "Techniques in Guiding Lines of Sight" and developed it due to his sharp observation skills. As revealed by Aomine and later in the Teiko arc, Akashi was the one who taught Kuroko his playing style. This is because Kuroko is difficult to place in one of the five basketball positions, his role in the team applies to none of those, but mostly as a pass-first point guard based on size and passing abilities but his dribbling and playcalling ability is not as advanced or polished as an average point guard. He mostly plays the position of a small forward based on defensive matchups and substitution strategies, but in recent chapters of the manga his position is listed as a questionmark. If he is left in play too long, opponents grow used to his misdirection tactics as such, he must be placed on the bench at varying points in any match to prevent this. His near-invisibility makes him highly susceptible to on-court injuries however, and is not effective indefinitely.
Kuroko capitalizes in the skill of misdirection, using himself as a relay to redirect his teammates' passes to another free player and make virtually unstoppable steals, getting the ball to and between his teammates faster than opponents can react, while at the same time remaining "invisible" to his opponents. However, he is greatly respected by everyone. This is because he is so small, frail, unnoticeable, distressingly slow, and easy to miss. Although he was an essential member of his middle school basketball team, unlike his former teammates, Kuroko is largely unknown. Tetsuya Kuroko ( 黒子 テツヤ, Kuroko Tetsuya) Voiced by: Kenshō Ono Ami Koshimizu (VOMIC) (Japanese) Khoi Dao (English) He is the "phantom" sixth man of the "Generation of Miracles" ( キセキの世代, Kiseki no Sedai) (Teiko Middle School's basketball team). This year, the team's notable newcomers include Tetsuya Kuroko, the main character of the manga, as well as Taiga Kagami. Seirin High's basketball team was founded only the year before the manga despite this setbacks and only including freshmen, the team made it all the way to the final league in that year's Inter-High school tournament.