Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-20 | Page 9 | "Close in" Shot Important

CLOSE IN SHOT One of Few Plays Best Made With One Hand Ohe I gYORT Q I HOT The short or ar In shot Is perhaps the thi most Important shota shot a 0 basketball ba k player attempts at att Tech Tech- Technique Technique Technique Is 11 important In long lone shots hot but the clement of ot luck Is pres- pres present pro cut ent there to a much larger lar er de- de degree degree gre de-gre gree than In the tho ir case of short hort shots Tho short shot ahot can be made In such a way wa as to Le be practically a sure euro thine The number of shots which a team gets et a game same are com com- comparatively comparatively few and since the short hort shot hot presents such Buch uch a 1 fine chance to score It Is highly important that these thello attempts at the th bas bas- basket bas basket ket should b bo be deadly Generally speaking in fn a bas has basketball basketball game camo two hands arc bet bet- better better bet better ter than on one but In the tho case of the short shot this Is not true for th the close clos In shot ahot can be made more accurately with one band hand than with two and two and at atthe atthe the same amo amo time 18 1 a 0 harder to guard than th the tho n handed two two shot In making this tills short shot the tho player should first tint of all get ret up In the air all a suf as high hith as possible I a aR R i Jl J with the shu arm fully ex- ex extended ex extended tended toward towar the basket Many any players make th the Iho mistake hero of getting a good jump and then them failing to extend th the arm tully fully It seems cm merely a a 11 matter of com com- common common mon sense to Know tint that the tho or lonc-or long long- longer ong- ong er cr you ou can cun keep lc ep the tho ball under your control on its flight to the basket the th I sa the tho chance chanco of error Another Important point Is the way the ball leaves the stand hand It should roll oil ot the th tips of ot the tho fingers In such a 0 manlier manner that the palm of tho the hand Is visible vl to the player ai at the ball leaves leave the tho hand In other r tho hand handIs handis bandis Is not behind the tho th ball pushing It Iton iton Iton on Its way this way this results result'S In over over shooting in lu a hard shot but shot rather the tho lal Ial Is gently laid against the and at- at al 01 allowed lowed to drop drou through tho the hoop The carom shot hot hull ball b ll hittinG backboard first t and then dropping th the tho basket l much safer eat eat- safer eater er than the tir other method of shooting them straight In Note Not these thu points 11 It the Illus Illustration 1 1 The high hl Ii h jump 2 Z The Th fully ful fu extended arm 3 6 The ball leaving ln from the lips lip of o the tho th igers 11 ii leers palm of othe the han hand toward the lh player 00 oo