There was a quick drive, a fadeaway shot and a clang on the rim.
When he hit his patented fadeaway shot with 4.8 seconds left in the first overtime, the game seemed over.
Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings, who scored 26 points, took an inbounds pass from Monta Ellis and made a tough fadeaway shot with 47.8 seconds left.
Thorn received the final inbounds pass and took a fadeaway shot that bounced off the front of the rim, hit the backboard and fell in.
But, West said, "Wilt had a great fadeaway shot, and he could shoot it over anybody". In college at the University of Kansas, while serving as the mainstay of the basketball team, he was also an outstanding track athlete.
Plumlee said, only half-joking, that he was not allowed to take fadeaway shots with the Nets.
Anthony routinely took the defender to the post, where he converted fadeaway shots.
His first start two games later was his first 20-point outing, and he was more consistently making the one-legged fadeaway shots that helped carry Dallas to a title.
He was still more of a finesse player, preferring fadeaway shots and finger rolls.
Furthermore, he is also credited to have invented the head fake and the fadeaway jump shot, a shot which Michael Jordan later became famous for.
Tall, athletic, fast, decent shot.
