Fun Topic. What is the most Unusual Move you have ever seen in basketball? I have two nominations:
1. Don Nelson "Palm -A- Shot" - Don Nelson had a really odd move where instead of using a conventional head-fake, he would go thru the shooting motion and just plam the ball. He'd end up with his right arm extended straight up holding the ball. I saw him do this to Wilt in the old Boston Garden in about 1968. It sent Wilt to the rafters. I've never seen any other player use it?
2. "Where's-the-Ball?" - In a situation where A1 is posting B1 and B1 is standing straight up in a "HANDS UP YOUR"RE UNDER ARREST POSE." A1 clamps the ball to his belly with his left hand and swings his right arm around B1, tapping his forearm to B1's thigh. B1 turns to see where the pass went and NOBODY behind him has the ball! My 9th Grade Coach did this to me once and it took me two weeks to figure out what happened? I use to see the New Bedford guys do it and Larry Bird did a "modified version" where he'd hold the ball in two hands and tap B1's thigh?
Any others?
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