She looks ready. Already seems clutch. Don’t hate on this question, but does her “windup” on the 3 look long? Just asking, don’t want to imply negativity here and not meant as such, just an observation, am sure it’s no issue with her past success but it’s there so I asked. Shot gets off pretty low, but she gets it off so prob no issue. Lord knows that question is going to deliver a hailstorm, it’s just an observation. There have been greats with long releases from lower points before.
Edit: just read some of the posts above reference same. Am sure Coach Jumper could “jump in” with a thought, am also sure it’s a nonissue. Would be ideal at 6’3” to have a quick and high release but they all do it differently.
the one shot I do not mess with is the "out of comfort-range" jumper.
If you compare my
own elbow shot, to my deep arc shot, you would see both start at the same shot ready position (behind my head ala Larry Bird),,,but on my elbow-and-closer shot the arms go upward to full extension and the wrists and fingertips guide the arc/path of the ball....when I shoot an out-of-comfort zone, deep shot, my shot still starts behind my head but the arms go into a pure two-armed-football-passing release, with almost no arc. I have to do this just to get it to the rim. And I have done it that way so many times that I am proficient even with bad mechanics.
two things about Justine's shot...;
1 She does shoot a push-shot from deep,,,but her "dribble pick-up/reception to release" is under a second. so she will beat out most closeouts.
2 She's not bothered by a hand in the face. I teach early on to my shooters that the eyes take the picture and then the brain calculates everything from there. Unless the defender gets a fingertip on the ball, the shot doesn't change. The hand can be completely blocking vision of the rim. Doesn't matter, the brain has already told the body how far it is and made the pre-shot calculations...if you continue to follow the brain's instructions,,,you can literally close your eyes and shoot.
If you take the video and click in the center of it and pause it, then take the in-line dot on the time-line and control the speed of the film,,,you can see the whole video in slow motion. Only then can you see things like;;;the defender makes the mistake of coming in with her hands low, this give Justine time to shoot over her hands,,,on Justine's push shot, her arms do go vertical in shot-motion,,and not angle-forward, like most traditional push shots. Her release point is very nearly perfect.
