Word: fallaway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, after a Penn basket, Williams hit a fallaway jumper from the key, followed it with a foul shot, and Sedlacek scored on a pair of free throws to put the Crimson in front...
McClung was just as impressive. After being held to eight points in the first half, he started bucketing his fallaway from the corner and his patented McClung Over-the-Head Flip, and wound up with 32 points. It was at Dartmouth last year that McClung set the all-time Harvard scoring record with 39 points...
Harvard did make one final surge in the final minutes of play. The Crimson trailed 70-60 with 4:36 left, when Merle McClung scored on a fallaway shot from the key and then sank four consecutive foul shots. That made it 71-66, and 2:44 remained...
...Tireless and amazingly agile, he stretched his 6-ft. 101n. frame until it seemed to tower over the taller Chamberlain. When Warrior guards tried to feed Pivot Man Chamberlain with soft, overhead passes, Russell was there-arms flailing-to bat the ball away. When Chamberlain leaped for his famed "fallaway" push shot, Russell leaped with him leaning into Wilt just enough to disturb his delicate aim. By half time, Chamberlain had scored just nine field goals, was so frustrated that he shook a clenched fist angrily at the air. Only in the second half, when Russell relaxed, did Chamberlain begin...
Master Strategist. A master strategist of base running (he perfected the "fallaway" or "hook" slide), Cobb made up for a lack of natural speed with daring, guile and meanness. His favorite tricks included kicking the ball out of a fielder's hand or permitting a throw to hit him. "I believe the base paths belong to the base runner," Cobb said-and he did not hesitate to spike infielders who tried to block his way to the bag. After he slashed Philadelphia's famed Frank ("Home Run") Baker on the arm in 1909, Cobb received 13 threatening letters...