And Thus the Jump Shot was born

[KevinNYC]

Nice piece on Kenny Sailors and how he invented the jump shot and used it to win the NCAA title 70 odd years ago (http://creative.nydailynews.com/jumpshot)


[QUOTE]It was on a spring day in 1934 when a 13-year-old Kenny Sailors first conceived the shot that would spread all over the world. Then he was just a 5-foot-6 kid trying to shoot over his much taller older brother Bud, a star high school athlete in basketball and track.

[KevinNYC]

He's still alive at 93 and there's a campaign to get him in the Hall of Fame.

[JohnMax]

didn't they lift weights back than?

[KevinNYC]

http://kennysailorsjumpshot.com/images/stories/ksailorsjumpshot.jpg
That's some pretty good form

There's even a website called http://kennysailorsjumpshot.com/

The witness page is hiliarious.

Utah led the Cowboys all the way through the game until the final seconds when Sailors cut loose with one of his jumping, one-hand push shots from far out on the court . . . to give Wyoming its 35-33 win.

....Sailors' jump-shot never fails to bring the 'oohs' from the audience....

.....Kenny Sailors had this strange habit. He would dribble across center court, head in to the top of the key and catapult high into the air. He'd hang up there as if suspended by some invisible wires and decide whether to shoot his one-hander or pass off to one of his teammates. That's the way he did it at Wyoming when he was one of the nation's finest basketball players, and now this was the way he was doing it with the Providence Steamrollers in the old BAA...

He was third in the NBA is scoring one year.

[KevinNYC]

didn't they lift weights back than?

Nope, they did farm work.

[JohnMax]

imagine what Lebron James and Blake Griffin would do to these weak stick figures


http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0610/nba_g_chamberlain01_576.jpg

[sammichoffate]

imagine what Blake Griffin would do to these weak stick figures


http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0610/nba_g_chamberlain01_576.jpgImagine what they would do if they had his resources :lol

[Smook A.]

imagine what Lebron James and Blake Griffin would do to these weak stick figures


http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0610/nba_g_chamberlain01_576.jpg
This guy too

http://slamdunktraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Dwight-Howard-Abs1.jpg

[Sarcastic]

imagine what Lebron James and Blake Griffin would do to these weak stick figures


http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0610/nba_g_chamberlain01_576.jpg

LeBron wouldn't even make the NBA if he were born in the 1950s.

[3LiftHeatCurse]

wait so how did they shoot before the jump shot?

flat footed?????

[Sarcastic]

wait so how did they shoot before the jump shot?

flat footed?????

Football used to be played without facemasks too.

[JohnMax]

wait so how did they shoot before the jump shot?

flat footed?????

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1930807/03marion_span-articleLarge.jpg









http://www.portlandmercury.com/binary/2325/1307721580-marionbeat2.gif

[KevinNYC]

imagine what Lebron James and Blake Griffin would do to these weak stick figures


http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0610/nba_g_chamberlain01_576.jpg

OK, but Lebron and Blake have to wear Chuck Taylors and play 48 minutes a game.

I agree they would kick ass the half the season. Also they had to fly coach.

But come the All-Star break, both those guys would have plantar fasciaitis and shin splits and be hobbling.

[KevinNYC]

wait so how did they shoot before the jump shot?

flat footed?????

Yup. The two-handed set shot was the standard. Check out the first shot here.

[SHAQisGOAT]

This guy too

http://slamdunktraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Dwight-Howard-Abs1.jpg


Or this guy:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IlubSSwQ0yY/UPzbjLxgbzI/AAAAAAAAEA8/Lz0OunkNBbQ/s800/Nate%2520Thurmond1.jpg


Wait.....

[LongLiveTheKing]

imagine what Lebron James and Blake Griffin would do to these weak stick figures


http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0610/nba_g_chamberlain01_576.jpg
Those guys are skinny af. They would dominate them.

[FKAri]

imagine what Lebron James and Blake Griffin would do to these weak stick figures


http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0610/nba_g_chamberlain01_576.jpg

Without them Lebron would be doing shotputs at the rim.

[LAZERUSS]

So the jump shot was invented in the 30's.

Interesting,... the perception by most fans here is that it wasn't until the 80's. Up until then, 5-10 white players dribbled the ball above their heads and with both hands, were shooting standing set-shots at peach baskets, and all rebounds were scooped up from the floor.

[Jameerthefear]

Geez. Imagine what Lebron would do in Wilt's weak ass era. Anthony Davis is better than Wilt tbh.

[LAZERUSS]

Geez. Imagine what Lebron would do in Wilt's weak ass era. Anthony Davis is better than Wilt tbh.


http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=329385

[LAZERUSS]

Geez. Imagine what Lebron would do in Wilt's weak ass era. Anthony Davis is better than Wilt tbh.

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showpost.php?p=9692781&postcount=93

[Jameerthefear]

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showpost.php?p=9692781&postcount=93
explain it to me in a paragraph. i'm not reading all of that. i have things to do.

[LAZERUSS]

explain it to me in a paragraph. i'm not reading all of that. i have things to do.

I can do it in a sentence. The players of today are no better than the players of the 50 years ago.

[sejoon101]

explain it to me in a paragraph. i'm not reading all of that. i have things to do.

Like what, bud?

[Jameerthefear]

I can do it in a sentence. The players of today are no better than the players of the 50 years ago.
I do not believe you.

[Jameerthefear]

Like what, bud?
Texting girls/download elementaryOS on my laptop/watch anime

[LAZERUSS]

I do not believe you.

Good for you.

[Jameerthefear]

Good for you.
Good to know. Once you old fvcks die off the current generation's opinion (which is me!) will be the standard and surely enough these weak ass 60's players will fade into obscurity and off people's top 10 lists. Good shit. Too bad you don't have the ability to convince me.

[LAZERUSS]

Good to know. Once you old fvcks die off the current generation's opinion (which is me!) will be the standard and surely enough these weak ass 60's players will fade into obscurity and off people's top 10 lists. Good shit. Too bad you don't have the ability to convince me.

Hard to convince someone that honestly believes that players like Kareem, Dr. J, Pistol Pete, and Chamberlain wouldn't be any good in today's NBA.

[IGOTGAME]

OK, but Lebron and Blake have to wear Chuck Taylors and play 48 minutes a game.

I agree they would kick ass the half the season. Also they had to fly coach.

But come the All-Star break, both those guys would have plantar fasciaitis and shin splits and be hobbling.
I think he was joking. Wilt is twice as strong as griffin or Lebron. He was a monster.

[IGOTGAME]

explain it to me in a paragraph. i'm not reading all of that. i have things to do.
Really, looks like you megapost on here 24/7 kid.

[SHAQisGOAT]

Good to know. Once you old fvcks die off the current generation's opinion (which is me!) will be the standard and surely enough these weak ass 60's players will fade into obscurity and off people's top 10 lists. Good shit. Too bad you don't have the ability to convince me.

I wasn't alive when Wilt (and so on) played, not even that close to it, and my opinion is the exact opposite from yours, and I know plenty of people just like that, even younger than me.. So yea, stop being stupid, those players' legacy will live on forever and they would be dominating right now regardless. A straight-up ignorant opinion like yours means shit, and even you know this.

Go on praising your soft-ass generation with your hipster shit, dudes like you living in front of the computer getting no *****, music like Justin Bieber, gay anime and wack-ass movies with thousands of remakes, hype ruling everything... weak af :oldlol:

[smoovegittar]

Or this guy:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IlubSSwQ0yY/UPzbjLxgbzI/AAAAAAAAEA8/Lz0OunkNBbQ/s800/Nate%2520Thurmond1.jpg


Wait.....

:oldlol: Word.

[smoovegittar]

These youngbloods on here don't know jack shit. I'd love to see half the ballers today play in the 60's and 70's. You think they cry about fouls NOW?

:facepalm

[Jameerthefear]

I wasn't alive when Wilt (and so on) played, not even that close to it, and my opinion is the exact opposite from yours, and I know plenty of people just like that, even younger than me.. So yea, stop being stupid, those players' legacy will live on forever and they would be dominating right now regardless. A straight-up ignorant opinion like yours means shit, and even you know this.

Go on praising your soft-ass generation with your hipster shit, dudes like you living in front of the computer getting no *****, music like Justin Bieber, gay anime and wack-ass movies with thousands of remakes, hype ruling everything... weak af :oldlol:
shut your old senior citizen ass up. everyone i know knows that the 60's were weak as hell. this generation fvcks your shitty one in the ass.

[ProfessorMurder]

Or this guy:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IlubSSwQ0yY/UPzbjLxgbzI/AAAAAAAAEA8/Lz0OunkNBbQ/s800/Nate%2520Thurmond1.jpg


Wait.....

I wish people just embraced going bald like that... Shaving their heads as if we don't know.

[smoovegittar]

shut your old senior citizen ass up. everyone i know knows that the 60's were weak as hell. this generation fvcks your shitty one in the ass.
Reported.

[Jameerthefear]

Reported.
for?

[SHAQisGOAT]

shut your old senior citizen ass up. everyone i know knows that the 60's were weak as hell. this generation fvcks your shitty one in the ass.

Senior? :rolleyes:
You're just mad because you know your generation is weak af :lol And you know you ain't getting no *****, unlike this "senior" right here, shit if Wilt was alive he'd still be getting more ***** than you :roll: Era filled with weak-ass losers, just how it goes, blame society or the world son :lol

[Jameerthefear]

i am an old and senile man. i have a limp dick.

i get more hoes than you btw. hell i'll be getting my dick sucked in an hour or so

[SHAQisGOAT]

yes i'll admit that my generation is really weak, plus i ain't getting no *****. hell i'll be m.asturbating to gay-anime in an hour or so

Good for you

[Jameerthefear]

my girl called. gtg... probably gonna be getting p*ssy while ur thinking about dead people or w/e. :pimp: BD

[Miller for 3]

my girl called. gtg... probably gonna be getting p*ssy while ur thinking about dead people or w/e. :pimp: BD

Reported. Also aren't you 12? does ur penor even work?

[HoopsFanNumero1]

People need to stop replying to this Jameer pedo.

[CelticBaller]

Or this guy:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IlubSSwQ0yY/UPzbjLxgbzI/AAAAAAAAEA8/Lz0OunkNBbQ/s800/Nate%2520Thurmond1.jpg


Wait.....
theres a reason why that guy was a good, look how ripped he was he was bullying those part time mailmen