Stop at the supermarket
To get myself something to eat
And when I look at the prices
They knock me off of my feet
I was in the baloney section
And I had to take myself a close look
Now Abdul-Jabbar couldn’t have made these prices
With a sky hook
- Johnny Guitar Watson
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Dirk nailed a skyhook just the other night.
There was no dunking allowed in college when Kareem (Lew Alcindor) was at UCLA. In fact, the rule against it was called The Lew Alcindor Rule. There also was no 3 point shot. As a result, he developed the famous sky hook.
They ran out of shore line?
Think about it ... the three-point shot, the two-second rule, the elimination of jump balls, etc.
Their back to the basket? They know who they’re playing with — They don’t turn their backs on anything or anybody.
It’s a hard shot to control.
You don’t “shoot” a basket, you “drop” it.
“Shooting” a basket implies that the ball takes a straight line to the rim. That’s a low percentage shot.
You drop the ball through the rim.
The math of the ball and the hoop shows that increased arc in the shot results in more baskets.
That’s why Shaq was such a poor free throw shooter.
He is so tall that he doesn’t think he needs to put arc on the ball.
The skyhook is a one handed shot that is hard to control.
Kareem could do it.