 Richard Mason Rocca making a hook shot for Eldo Napoli, 2006 A hook shot, in basketball, is a play in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Unlike the jump shot, it is shot with only one hand; the other arm is often used to create space between the shooter and the defensive player. Once the ball is in shooting position, the hook shot is one of the most difficult shots to effectively defend. However, prior to that point, as the ball is being brought up into position, it is very susceptible to being stolen from behind. Basketball, 1977, by Rick Dikeman File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Benson taking a hook shot Michael Kent Benson (born December 27, 1954 in New Castle, Indiana) is a former collegiate and pro basketball player. ...
Indiana Universitys athletic teams are called the Hoosiers, and their colors are cream and crimson, though red and white have been used at times in the past. ...
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Richard Mason Rocca (Evanston, Illinois, November 6, 1977) is an Italian-American basketball player, who currently plays for Eldo Napoli. ...
Basket Napoli is an Italian basketball club based in Naples. ...
A cricket match in progress. ...
Andrew Strauss batting for England during the 2005 NatWest Series In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat in order to score runs without getting out. ...
One of the Hookshots designs in The Legend of Zelda series A hookshot is a device used to pull the wielder to a different location, for example, across large gaps or to a higher elevation, although it can also pull distant objects towards oneself. ...
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A jump shot being taken at the FIBA EuroCup Women Finals in 2005. ...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the National Basketball Association's all-time leading scorer, was well-known for his highly-effective sky hook, so named because of the height at which Abdul-Jabbar released the ball. Abdul-Jabbar was over seven feet tall, and he released the ball only when his hand was at the very top of his arm's arcing motion. Thus, once released, the sky hook was essentially impossible to block without committing goaltending. Some of the few players in history to ever successfully block one of Kareem's sky hooks were Wilt Chamberlain, Manute Bol, Ralph Sampson, Mark Eaton, Hakeem Olajuwon and Artis Gilmore.[citation needed] For the football player, see Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar. ...
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Oscar Torres (13) is in position to block this shot. ...
In basketball, goaltending is the violation of interfering with the ball or the basket on the balls downward flight to the basket or while it is on the ring (or, in the NBA, while it is directly above the basket). ...
Wilton Norman Wilt Chamberlain (August 21, 1936–October 12, 1999), nicknamed Wilt the Stilt and The Big Dipper, was an American professional National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player for the Philadelphia / San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers; and also played for the Harlem Globetrotters. ...
Manute Bol (born October 16, 1962) is a Sudanese-born basketball player and activist. ...
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Mark Eaton can refer to more than one person: Mark Eaton the professional basketball player. ...
Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon (born Akeem Abdul Olajuwon on January 21, 1963) is a retired Nigerian-American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). ...
Artis Gilmore (born September 21, 1948, in Chipley, Florida) is a former professional basketball player in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA). ...
Abdul-Jabbar's teammate Magic Johnson used a similar shooting technique during the 1987 NBA championship, which he termed the "junior sky hook." It proved similarly difficult to defend. “Earvin Johnson†redirects here. ...
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Sky Hook
A "hook shot" is sometimes known as a "sky hook." An athlete forms a hook as the basketball is released with one hand over the shoulder as the basketball is released. An athlete is airborne as the ball is released, which is why this is a "sky" hook, since they are "in the sky.""Hook Shot" is a street expression that has become part of the basketball vocabulary gaining great acceptance across America and in the NBA.
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