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Stephen Curry attempting a jump shot over Marcin Gortat. In basketball (and derivatives like netball), a player may attempt to score a basket by leaping straight into the air, the elbow of the shooting hand cocked, ball in hand above the head, and launching the ball in a high arc towards the basket for a jump shot (colloquially, a jumper).
He is recognized by some basketball scholars as an early innovators of the jump shot, being perhaps the first college basketball player to use the technique as his primary offensive weapon. [ 2 ] According to journalist Bill Pennington, writing in The New York Times in 2011, the origins of the "jumper" are a matter of significant scholarly dispute:
The first basketball "jump" shot could have been executed in 1918, or any year, by any John Doe in Any Town, U.S.A. The more important consideration is, who was the first in organized basketball to put to use a "jump" style shot with the result being “increased scoring” for that individual, assuming it was an asset to the team?
Angelo-Giuseppi "Hank" Luisetti (June 16, 1916 – December 17, 2002) [1] was an American college basketball player. He is considered to be one of the great innovators of the sport. In an era that featured the traditional two-handed set shot, Luisetti developed the running one-handed shot, an early version of the jump shot.
John Adams (April 9, 1917 – June 1979) was an American basketball player. He was an All-American player at Arkansas in the 1940s. Adams is one of several men credited with creating the jump shot in basketball. John Adams, a 6'3 guard/forward, grew up in El Paso, Arkansas and starred for two years at El Paso High School.
Duke Blue Devils freshman Cooper Flagg had a game for the ages, scoring an ACC freshmen-record 42 points against Notre Dame on 11-for-14 shooting from the field and 16-for-17 from the free throw ...
Kenneth Lloyd Sailors (January 14, 1921 – January 30, 2016) was an American professional basketball player active in the 1940s and early 1950s. [1] A 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) guard, he is regarded one of the players who developed the jump shot as an alternative to the two-handed, flat-footed set shot.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — En route to a 13-0 start this season, Florida basketball leaned on a simple formula. Armed with the best rebounding team in the land, the Gators used their dominance on the ...