Fade Away Shots in Basketball

Video Transcript

"Okay let us talk about a fade away shot. This is another effective shot and you would see it use fairly often in the NBA. Especially cause those guys are so tall that they, a lot of guys that off guard, small guards, small forwards, even power forwards they need to create space and sometimes that is not enough. Sometimes these guys can jump so well and they are so tall that you really need to create extra space by maybe faking in towards the basket and then coming back. So a fade away is when you are falling back away from the basket, fading away from the basket. You can do a fade away from anywhere on the court. Obviously the further you are away from the basket the fade away is going to be difficult cause it takes arm strength, good wrist, and good legs. So you are combining all of those things and creating yourself a good fade away. So here close to the basket, I mean we are coming in and we are faking, we are falling backwards while we are shooting the ball. We are going to fade away from the basket. Maybe here you can get a better angle where you see me floating away from the basket. So here we get a shoot of fading away from the basket and just watch the body and how I push up and back. So we are going in angle backwards. "