In Reply to: Ha Ha … is Bill Sherman still around … posted by mikeo on December 04, 2024 at 14:24:16
in interviews I've seen with Wilt, he liked to brag that his real offensive weapon was the dunk - it was the fall away jumper. I'm not saying he was taking fallaways from behind the stripe. But, maybe falling away allowed him to extend his arms while reducing the velocity of his shot in a way he couldn't at the line. Or, maybe 50% is a really good shooting percentage on fall aways, but not so much on FT's :-)