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January 30, 2016
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
The most important question heading into Super Bowl week
posted by Etrigan at 07:50 PM on January 30, 2016
Related to Howard's link to the death of Ken Sailors: I was thinking the other day that the set shot needs to come back. If you make it inside the three point arc, it should count for three points. If you make it outside of the three point arc, it should count as four points. I mean, come on! The set shot! Bring it back.
posted by NoMich at 08:26 PM on January 30, 2016
I still see a number of two-handed set shots in my son's Chicago Catholic Youth League 4th-grade basketball games.
posted by holden at 09:19 PM on January 30, 2016
If a player ran past Ginobili while he was attempting a set shot and he fell over, how many foul shots would he get?
posted by beaverboard at 07:53 AM on January 31, 2016
Two minutes for tripping.
posted by NoMich at 10:43 AM on January 31, 2016
I still see a number of two-handed set shots in my son's Chicago Catholic Youth League
The spirit of Fat Freddie Scolari still lives. I remember watching him at the end of his career when he spent a season with Boston. His shooting style, a 2-handed set shot that he released quite low, was most unusual, and he overcame a significant obstacle to make it into the NBA.
posted by Howard_T at 04:50 PM on January 31, 2016
Ken Sailors, the man credited with the first use of the jump shot in basketball, has died at 95. Sailors was a star for the University of Wyoming Cowboys in the early 1940s, leading the team to an NCAA championship in 1943. He also played in the NBA for several seasons. One of his teammates at Wyoming was the Hall of Fame broadcaster Curt Gowdy.