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hook shot

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hook shot
n. Basketball
A shot made by arcing the far hand upward while being positioned or moving sideways to the basket.
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Noun1.hook shothook shot - a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
hook
basketball shot - throwing the basketball toward the hoop; "his shot hit the rim and bounced out"
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color) The Lakers' Lamar Odom, center, takes a hook shot over Utah's Paul Millsap on Monday.
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GENO AURIEMMA, who has made an art form out of recruiting women basketball players: "I heard about a super high school center who was 6-8, could dunk with either hand, and had a better hook shot than Abdul-Jabbar.
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Milken (16-6) didn't score its first field goal until more than six minutes into the first quarter, when Caitlyn Campos broke the drought with a running hook shot.
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