Word: fadeaway
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...anything (Nike, Gatorade, McDonald's, Oakley, Rayovac, WorldCom...) is that he wins. While his skills were once those of Baryshnikov, age and triple-teaming defenses have grounded him. So, like Sinatra after he lost his crooning voice, Jordan, with delimited skills, developed an even better game. Through practice, his fadeaway jumper, passing and defense are twice as good as when he started in the league. During the last seconds of the play-off series with the Pacers, Bird told his team to swarm Jordan and see if he was great enough to pass. He was--and Bird should have known...
...cracked back on Lakers Rick Fox and Eddie Jones, who kept jacking up threes but ended just 4-for-12 from behind the arc against the Wizards: "We've got a lot of Rex Chapman wannabes on this team. Those off-balance, one-legged, fadeaway threes won't get it done in this league...
...ensuing possession, Beam brought the ball down the right wing, and found Scott sliding off a pick at the high post. Scott took the pass and hit a fadeaway jumper in traffic to pull Harvard ahead...
...With a fadeaway in the final seconds of regulation, sophomore Tim Hill had given the Harvard men's basketball team a chance for redemption against Penn...
...York is a different team in the second half. Ewing's fadeaway jumpers are falling, and Larry Johnson seems to have suddenly decided to be good, demonstrating a god-like array of post moves...