Crossword clues for fadeaway
Wiktionary
n. 1 An instance of fading away, of diminishing in proximity or intensity. 2 (context basketball English) a jump shot made while jumping backwards, away from the basket. The goal is to create space between the shooter and the defender, making it much harder to block.
Wikipedia
A fadeaway or fall-away in basketball 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.
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. Also, because the movement is away from the basket, the shooter has less chance to grab his own rebound.
The shooting percentage is lower in fadeway (because of the difficulty of the shot) and the shooter cannot get his own rebound. This leads many coaches and players to believe it is one of the worst shots in the game to take. However, 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, the shooter can easily get a foul on the defender.
Only a handful of great NBA players have been successful shooting fadeaways. Michael Jordan was one of the most popular shooters of the fadeaway. Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, Hakeem Olajuwon, Dwyane Wade, Karl Malone, and Larry Bird are also well known for using this move. The even more difficult one-legged fadeaway has become Dirk Nowitzki's signature move and has been called by LeBron James the second most unstoppable move ever, only behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's skyhook.
Usage examples of "fadeaway".
So our favorite explorer of the magical realms of sports, Rick Wilber, has put aside his split-finger fastball for the fadeaway lumper and given us this moving and personal story of how some forms of truth can be found at the top of the key.
Carson had been practicing on what he called a fadeaway ball, and now he thought this would be just the right thing to offer Sam.
Robert backs in on Jimmy, protecting the ball as he moves in toward the goal, getting ready to take a little turn-around fadeaway jumper that should end it.
One of the inventions to bring the twilight of the gathering into brotherhood with the shadows on the screen is a simple thing known to the trade as the fadeaway, that had its rise in a commonplace fashion as a method of keeping the story from ending with the white glare of the empty screen.
Elite skin had to be somewhat permeable, and a heavy douse of fadeaway would put one down for several minutes while the Elite immune system dealt with the drug.
He watched The Shadow whirl about and perform a sweeping fadeaway, as crooks fired in return.
On the move, he thought that the rise of darkness and its curious fadeaway were due to the changing angle of his vision.
This was the fadeaway that he had so artfully performed before the gun-barrels of other gangland foes.
He was so aggressive and had such long arms that Treyshawn had to try a fadeaway with a high arc from ten feet out.
Panic and hysteria would travel slowly along the constriction and there would be time for the quick, prepared fadeaway along the side passage or the unobtrusive step onto an escalating localway that would move them to a higher level and disappearance.
Then, toward the end, Robert backs in on Jimmy, protecting the ball as he moves in toward the goal, getting ready to take a little turn-around fadeaway jumper that should end it.
I could see a couple of street monsters parked in her drive, scratching their balls and waiting for a fadeaway woman in a light green Subaru wagon with two little girls in the back.
If the bomb worked correctly, as the prototype had, it would connect itself to the surface of the Peaceforcer rolligon by a superconducting magnet, punch a sixty-centimeter-long spike down through the stiff outer wall of the rolligon, and, through the spike, spray fadeaway at high pressure across the interior of the rolligon.
He scrambled for balance, hampered by servos that were slower than his own muscles, lunged forward at the last moment and landed belly down across the top of the rolligon, still holding the fadeaway bomb.
The long spike through which the fadeaway had been sprayed hung straight down through the roof of the rolligon, still dripping very slightly.