He Was The ORIGINAL Klay Thompson...

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As much as I love Klay Thompson’s lightning quick release, he was not the first to do this. In fact it was another teammate of Steph Curry from the past that pioneered this. Let me show you.
When talking about quick release Thompson is of course one of the first guys that comes to mind and Steph Curry is right there with him in the conversation with some ridiculous flings that sometimes are even off the dribble.
2 guys that are a bit forgotten are Shaun Marion with his incredibly short follow through, allowing him to get the ball up super fast and the Matrix rarely got blocked because of it. And I have to mention Eddie House as well who always hopped on the catch and sprung back up into his shot. He was the quickest that I’ve seen a player do this motion consistently.
But when discussing the no-dip, which is this right here- the ball doesn’t go down or doesn’t dip below the shoulders.
Anthony Morrow was actually the pioneer and wasn’t like a once in a while thing. In 2015 he started shooting like this almost every time off the catch.
I mean look at this shot. The ball is above his head the entire time. I have never seen a player keep the ball that high up on the shot, let alone swish it.
Shots like that earned him the nickname (FASTEST GUN IN THE WEST COMMENTATOR) which I thought was pretty cool.
Even before the major shot transformation, Morrow always had a pretty quick jumper. And a deadly one. In 2008 as a rookie for Golden State, he led the league in 3 point percentage, finishing the season with 46.7%.
The next season the Warriors drafted Steph Curry and the 2 shooters looked scary at times. But of course the team was far from successful in those early Steph years.
So Anthony was traded and bounced around the league for a few years before landing on a contender in the Russ and KD Thunder in 2014.
And the following off-season he warned the reporters in a press conference that he’s working on speeding up his shot even more.
But nobody expected this quick of a catch and shoot mechanics.
Kevin Durant admitted that after watching his teammate do it, he started practicing it himself, but Morrow was better. That’s quite the compliment coming from a sniper like KD.
And in recent years we’ve seen players adopt and use this technique on some of their shots. Klay of course is the most famous nowadays, but also Duncan Robinson has quite a few no-dip shots from downtown. Combined with his constant running all over the court, this makes him a tough cover.
And Sam Hausser is not as high profile of a shooter as these 2, but he’s another guy that does it from time to time. But nobody is as frequent with it, as Anthony Morrow. So I wanted to set the record straight on that. That’s it for now, subscribe and talk to you in the next one. Peace out.