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push shot
noun
A shot where the cue ball is in contact with the object ball while the cue is in contact with the cue ball. Such a shot is a foul.
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Perhaps a small school could use a guy with an old-school push shot.
Robertson drove the right side of the lane and attempted a push shot from midair about 7 feet from the basket.
All seemed lost for Duke when Sean Woods hit a 13-foot, right-handed push shot over Christian Laettner with 2.1 seconds to play to give Kentucky a 103-102 lead.
When he returned to Texas in 1946, Martin starred as one of the team's three quick guards known as the Orange Mice or the Mighty Mice who ran weaves until Martin or one of his teammates got open for a one-handed push shot.
Standing 6-foot-6, with a superb one-handed push shot from the perimeter (the jumper hadn't yet come into its own) and a hook shot that made him deadly near the basket, Molinas was, briefly, one of the premier high-scoring forwards in the fledgling N.B.A., before he was suspended for gambling during his first and only season with the Fort Wayne Pistons.
"Whether there has been a push shot or not is pretty much academic - it's the slant of the comments that Mark made afterwards.
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Until then the only outside attempts were two-handed push shots.
If it switches direction to left to right, it is going to push shots toward the water.
Director John Leonetti, cinematographer first time round, knows which buttons to push – shots of fingers nearing sewing machine needles to get everybody edgy, sudden shrieks and thunderclaps for popcorn-scattering – but he's working with an underwhelming star turn.
He had a chance when left in among the balls, but fouled due to a push-shot giving Higgins a chance to prevail, but the four-time champion missed a red to the middle pocket and broke down on 44.
If the player does not say he will "push," the shot is considered a normal shot and ordinary foul rules apply.
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