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The announcers are annoying claiming it's a foul...but Kobe is sick. **** that guy. Why is he so good?!?!
That was crazy. Everything the Lakers did in the 1st quarter went right, including this circus shot and Kobe's left-handed push-shot at the buzzer. They totally overwhelmed the Thunder and made them look like a high school team.
I practice that shot all the time just shooting around at the park- if you practice it enough, you can make it regularly- in practice. But to do it in a game situation, that's crazy. It has to be a high-arching shot, which is extremely difficult to do when you're moving like Kobe does (when you try that shot in a game while moving, you usually wind up throwing it past the rim- you definitely can't shoot line-drive style like Kenny Smith if you're behind the backboard, you know?). You don't have the front of the backboard as the comfortable visual. Again, just a very difficult shot in a game situation. Highly impressive.
Even if its OT, it reminds me of Roberto Carlos <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KNs4w2k6qNo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KNs4w2k6qNo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Nice shot, but it seems like he only put it up because he was expecting a foul call. I remember seeing Larry Bird make a shot like that once before as well.
yeah the first thing i thought of was bird's shot as well.....but i seem to remember his shot not counting because of some rule that the ball couldn't be shot over the backboard
RULE NO. 8-OUT-OF-BOUNDS AND THROW-IN b. Any ball that rebounds or passes directly behind the backboard, in either direction, from any point is considered out-of-bounds.
I dont think he was really trying to make it lol. He was just putting it up so he could get the foul call that he didnt get.
My 2005-6 AAU team had a young man named Stephen "High Flya" Moten who could jump so high we designed a baseline inbounds play that looked like that shot. Our PG passed the ball over the backboard, and Stephen jumped up into some thinner atmosphere, grabbed the ball up near the top of the backboard, and slammed it home on his way down. It was a game-changer. Every witness in the LL Milton YMCA immediately jumped around like those NASCAR drivers engulfed in invisible alcohol flames; many went to the ground and flopped around like fish out of water. It was like that one play had sucked all the oxygen out of the gym. We only ran it that one time. It's one of my fondest basketball memories, and I hope I'll never forget it.
