Like Kareem: the new and "crazy" weapon that Doncic added to the repertoire

Mark Cuban revealed that the Dallas star worked on a "deadly new move" in the offseason, Slovenia's preliminaries revealed: He is trying to imitate the "Sky Hook", which is considered one of the hardest shots in basketball

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08/19/2022

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Tiktukno, 18.8 (Sport1)

Like the truly great players, Luka Doncic also tries to come back every summer with a more varied arsenal of moves.

It seems that he used the current break to add to his repertoire a move that has gone out of fashion and is almost out of fashion: Kareem Abdul Jabbar's famous "Sky Hook".

During the week, Dallas owner Mark Cuban was interviewed, and talked about a "crazy new move" that the Slovenian star is working on.

"I don't want to bash him, but when you see it you'll say to yourself, 'Where the hell did he get that?'

Indeed, in the last preparatory games of the Slovenian national team for the Eurobasket, it seems that Doncic is practicing the famous hook shot, which was the hallmark of Abdul Jabbar, one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

Doncic has been seen attempting the "sky hook" several times during games, and doing so with great success.

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The "Skyhawk" has almost fallen out of use since Abdul Jabbar's retirement in 1989, and over the years many have wondered why, given the fact that Kareem elevated it to art.

Although the shot made Abdul Jabbar deadly, there were almost no "imitators" for him, and in one of the articles published on the subject in ESPN, it was explained that it is "perhaps the hardest shot in basketball", because it requires a rare combination of extraordinary touch, sense of direction and hands long

"Today no one is taught to throw a hook shot, because everyone is in love with the three," explained Abdul Jabbar himself in an interview he gave two years ago.

"No one wants to shoot for two points, everyone only wants to shoot from outside the arc, so what's the point of learning such a shot? When you have a sniper like Steph Curry, everyone wants to be like him - but they don't understand that the closer you get to the ring, the shooting percentage will only increase."

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