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From: ccc@bu-cs.UUCP (Cameron Carson)
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Subject: Re: The Kareem Rises => Trendy shots
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Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 16:00:36 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 23 16:00:36 1985
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>	       Perhaps the greatest tribute to its complex 
>	simplicity is that the sky hook never became a trend.
>	It will always be his.
>
This brings up an interesting topic.  One shot that has "become
a trend," so to speak, is the jump hook.  I don't recall it being
very widely used before the late '70s, but now it seems to be a
staple at most levels of competition.  [Note: I don't mean 'trend'
in a pejorative sense, because I don't see it as a passing fad.]
Nor do I recall who popularized (is that a word?) it.  In high
school (again, in the late '70s), I think we referred to a jump
hook as a "dawkins" or maybe a "mcginnis" (though I think McGinnis'
one-handed shot wasn't really a hook-style shot).  So, was DD responsible?

-- 
Cameron C. Carson
Distributed Systems Group
Boston University ACC

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