An alley-oop in basketball is an offensive game where one player throws the ball near the basket to the jumping team, catching the ball in the air and putting it on the ring before touching the ground.
Alley-oop combines elements of teamwork, determining direction, time and finishing.
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The origin of the term
The term "alley-oop" is derived from the French term allez hop! , the cries of a circus acrobat that will jump. The term Alley Oop was first popularized in the United States in 1932 as the name of a syndicated comic created by cartoonist V. T. Hamlin. In sports the term "alley-oop" first appeared in the 1950s by the San Francisco 49ers of the NFL to illustrate the high trajectory of quarterback Y. A. Tittle to wide receiver R.C. Owens, who will beat smaller cornerbacks for a touchdown reception ("The Catch", received the famous Dwight Clark touchdown from Joe Montana where 49ers got into their first Super Bowl, also a "gang-oop" pass) and then became more known from its use in basketball.
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History
In the 1950s, some players began to take advantage of the ability to jump by grabbing the ball in the air and then dipping. Bill Russell at the University of San Francisco, Wilt Chamberlain at Kansas University and Johnny Green 'Jumping' at Michigan State University often took the wrong shot by teammates and dipped it. This resulted in tightening in enforcement of offensive playing rules in the NCAA and NBA basketball in the late 1950s.
Al Tucker and his brother Gerald at Oklahoma Baptist University are sometimes considered the first to use gang-oops in the mid-60s. In the record-breaking Bill-44, 21-for-22 shooting performance for UCLA in the 1973 NCAA championship against Memphis State, her six baskets came in drama-oop.
Some people praised David Thompson as the first player to execute classic oop drama while at North Carolina State University, with team mate Monte Towe and Tim Stoddard throwing the necessary lob. Thompson NCSU popularized this drama during the early 1970s, exploiting its 44-inch vertical jump to make the above circle play a recurring principal role in the Wolfpack offensive attack. Since the dip was illegal in college basketball at the time, after grabbing a pass, Thompson would just drop the ball through a circle - never dipping one until the last game of the last home game of his career.
After a decade of ban smearing ended at the NCAA in 1976, gang-oop became tied in the late 1970s with Michigan State's Earvin 'Magic' Johnson and Greg Kelser. The duo are connected to many highlights of alley-oops and will be exhibiting dramas in their 1979 national championships, including the most watched games in sports history, the Magic vs. championship game. The famous bird. Three years later, the unknown Idaho made the alleys as an integral part of their minor offenses in 1982, ending the eighth regular season in both the main polls at 26-2, and proceeding to Sweet Sixteen.
The following year, North Carolina State also won a national championship on what is considered the most famous gang of all time against the much-loved Houston in the 1983 championship game at The Pit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. With time running out and scoring, guard Dereck Whittenburg fired a short rim, effectively functioning as a bait to Lorenzo Charles, who caught the ball and crammed it through the goal to win the title in a big mistake.
During the 1990s, the NBA star changed the aisle into a fast-paced strike game. In recent years, teams often run alley-oop as a planned game. 2008 National Champion Kansas Jayhawks has several designs for alley-oops, including some thrown off inbound sets, and can execute them in turn with almost all players able to do lob and finish the game.
Popular culture
In the 2008 film Semi-Pro, Jackie Moon's protagonist, played by Will Ferrell, created a gang-oop after fainting and talking to his deceased mother in the depiction of Heaven. Crowds and broadcasters almost speechless, unable to understand what happened. The referee was stunned and felt the game should be a violation, and maybe even two offenses. Monix, played by Woody Harrelson, broke the game mechanism and convinced the referee that it was worth two points. This drama allows the fictional Flint Tropics to rally back and ultimately defeat the San Antonio Spurs.
See also
- Alley-oop (American football), the original use of the term in sports
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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