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23. Teen Wolf. For more than a minute, the entire gymnasium goes quiet. Michael J. Fox has just transformed into a werewolf and begins dribbling the basketball before stunned teammates and ...
Unstoppable is a 2024 American biographical sports drama film directed by William Goldenberg, in his feature directorial debut, and written by Eric Champnella, Alex Harris and John Hindman, based on the 2012 book of the same name by Anthony Robles (who also serves as producer) and Austin Murphy.
Gene Hackman's Norman Dale takes a job coaching a high school basketball team in Hickory, Indiana, in this Oscar-nominated movie, widely considered to be one of the basketball films of all time ...
A pump fake (also called a shot fake) is a feigned attempt at a jump shot, restrained before the feet leave the ground. The pump fake is a fundamental move in basketball, used to cause defenders to jump (known in basketball slang as "lifting" the defender) or be shifted off-balance.
At 0:21, an Asian boy palms the basketball. [5] At 0:22, a young woman shoots a fall away jumper. [1] The music adds a second violin line and a snare drum cadence. At 0:25, a young man performs a "rock the cradle" slam dunk. At 0:29, a young man recreates Jordan's free throw line dunk from the 1988 NBA All-Star Game Slam Dunk Contest. This is ...
The basketball scenes stop just short of being overly saccharine, and the final 15 minutes will leave you reaching for a tissue. There is no better line in any sports movie than Dale telling his ...
A fadeaway or fall-away in basketball is a jump shot taken while jumping backwards, away from the basket. The goal is to create space between the shooter and the defender, making the shot much harder to block. The shooter must have very good accuracy, much higher than when releasing a regular jump shot, and must use more strength to counteract ...
Different from some of the other movies on this list, this film isn't quite the heart warmer, but more so the hard-hitting truthful tale. It couples Nick Nolte as a college basketball coach with ...