“Until you see a really popular or high-profile big guy shooting it, I don’t think the kids will start to shoot it.”įor now, Plumlee offers a glimpse of a lost art, fitting for a cultural anthropology major. “Dwight Howard shoots one every now and then, but he’s not as good at it,” he said. Stephens said he did not see the hook shot making a revival. When he is double-teamed, he can make the right pass out of a double. “He’s a guy who not only can score with his back to the basket, but he’s one of our best passers. “The game has changed, and that’s why for us, having a low-post player like Mason is so valuable,” Wojciechowski said. He leads the Blue Devils with 10 rebounds a game and has 67 assists, more than any Duke player who is not a guard. The hook has helped Plumlee average 17.2 points a game, just behind guard Seth Curry’s team-leading 17.3, and post the nation’s sixth-best field-goal percentage (.598). “I think really at the end of last year, I felt like it was more of a go-to move for me.” So I have to have something I can go to and use touch and shoot over people. I can’t just back people all the way under the rim. “I’m not overpowering,” the 230-pound Plumlee said. Plumlee had no such hesitation when he started working on it several years ago. They think it’s an old-school move, and they’d rather shoot a jump hook or turnaround jump shot.” “You equate it with Kareem shooting a roll hook - that’s what we call it - or a sky hook, whatever you want to call it. “Those guys don’t think that shot is fashionable,” Stephens said. Stephens said that forwards Adreian Payne and Derrick Nix could shoot a hook, but that they were not keen on it.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |