ccc@bu-cs.UUCP (Cameron Carson) (12/24/85)
> Perhaps the greatest tribute to its complex > simplicity is that the sky hook never became a trend. > It will always be his. > This brings up an interesting topic. One shot that has "become a trend," so to speak, is the jump hook. I don't recall it being very widely used before the late '70s, but now it seems to be a staple at most levels of competition. [Note: I don't mean 'trend' in a pejorative sense, because I don't see it as a passing fad.] Nor do I recall who popularized (is that a word?) it. In high school (again, in the late '70s), I think we referred to a jump hook as a "dawkins" or maybe a "mcginnis" (though I think McGinnis' one-handed shot wasn't really a hook-style shot). So, was DD responsible? -- Cameron C. Carson Distributed Systems Group Boston University ACC UUCP: ...!harvard!bu-cs!ccc ARPA: ccc%bu-cs@csnet-relay.arpa
michaelf@ISM780.UUCP (12/30/85)
I remember seeing Bill Walton doing that ugly jump hook
business when he was at UCLA.