captain stone
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I'm a little too young to remember watching Heinsohn as a player, but in the early '70s I developed a left-handed hook shot to mimic Dave Cowens...I learned to shoot the hook and burned many angry guys on the playground with it.
Is it a lost art now? I hope not.
Kareem was tall enough that he didn't need that much trajectory on it.
I once read/heard that some NBA folks weren't big fans of the hook because it leaves the shooter out of position for a rebound; but if a big man developed one with the Accuracy of Alcindor as I heard it once described, then there wouldn't be many rebounds available anyway...I'd like to see TimeLord work on one as a matchup weapon...