set shot

American  

noun

Basketball.

1. a shot with two hands from a point relatively distant from the basket, in which a player stands still and shoots the ball usually from chest level.

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Etymology

Origin of set shot

First recorded in 1930–35

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set shot

The pictures in the first set, shot outside under cloud-streaked skies, tend to be more expansive.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023

He’s also credited as one of the first players to utilize a jump shot when a set shot ruled the game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2022

Streamers and rollouts — banners that poked fun at the opposing team — have gone the way of the set shot.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

He also is the unofficial leading scorer in Palestra history after converting countless buckets with his set shot during the weekly media lunchtime pickup game he organized and ran for many years.

From Fox News ● Nov. 28, 2021

Dribbling three times with both his right and left hand, Bull went into a strangely graceful crouch and threw up an arcing two-hand set shot that swished through the net.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy