7’6″ Tall, Former Celtics and Cavaliers Center, Star Introduces New Free Throw Shooting Style in the NBA Summer League

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The 2022 NBA Summer League is coming to a close, and the league’s rising talents have played some truly outstanding basketball. In the NBA Summer League championship game on Sunday, Brandon Williams scored 22 points to lead the Portland Trail Blazers to an 85-77 victory against the New York Knicks.

Tacko Fall had the chance to impress the Jazz and maybe land a spot on their regular season roster after he developed into a fan favorite with the Boston Celtics throughout the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons. Falling into Summer League play for the Jazz is not that surprising.

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Towards the conclusion of Danny Ainge’s time as Boston’s president of basketball operations, he made his NBA debut with the Celtics. Ainge is presently employed with the Jazz in a comparable position. On December 30, 2021, Fall made his final NBA appearance for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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Tacko Fall’s strange free throw in the NBA Summer League

This week, Tacko Fall, who participated for the Utah Jazz in the Summer League, made headlines for his peculiar foul shooting technique. Fall lined up to shoot and, as if his controller had been briefly disconnected, jerked violently before unleashing a one-handed crane shot at the basket. We have surely never seen anything like the off-handed circular swirling motion that Tacko has unleashed.

If you look at it frame by frame, you can see that Tacko begins the offhand circular motion while still holding the ball in his right hand. That simply seems like a lot of motion at a really crucial point in someone’s form. Given that you are performing magic tricks with one hand while shooting a basketball with the other, one may imagine it might confuse you.

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