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A fadeaway or fall-away in
basketball
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is a
jump shot taken while jumping backwards, away from the basket. The goal is to create space between the shooter and the defender, making the shot much harder to
block
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. The shooter must have very good accuracy, much higher than when releasing a regular jump shot, and must use more strength to counteract the backwards momentum in a relatively short amount of time. Because the movement is away from the basket, the shooter also has less chance to grab his own
rebound.
Because the shooting percentage is lower in fadeaway due to the difficulty of the shot and because it is harder for the shooter to get his own rebound, many coaches and players believe it is one of the worst shots in the game to take. Once mastered, it is one of the hardest methods of shooting for defenders to block. The threat of a fadeaway forces a defender to jump into the shooter, and with a
pump fake
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, the shooter can easily get a
foul on the defender.
Only a handful of great NBA players have been successful shooting fadeaways.
Wilt Chamberlain
Wilton Norman Chamberlain (; August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was an American professional basketball player who played as a center. Standing at tall, he played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 14 years and is widely reg ...
was a famous pioneer of the fadeaway, and
Kevin McHale helped popularise it in the 1980s.
Michael Jordan and
Kobe Bryant are regarded as the most popular shooters of the fadeaway.
Dirk Nowitzki
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,
DeMar DeRozan
DeMar Darnell DeRozan (born August 7, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the USC Trojans and was selected ninth overall by the T ...
, and others are also well known for using this move.
See also
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Basketball moves
Basketball moves are generally individual actions used by players in basketball to pass by defenders to gain access to the basket or to get a clean pass to a teammate to score.
Dribble
Dribbling is bouncing the ball continuously with one ha ...
References
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Basketball terminology
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