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VIDEO: Dwyane Wade’s One-Handed Alley-Oop Layup Was Pretty

It’s really hard to catch and finish an alley-oop layup. At least with a dunk, you know that the motion is relatively simple. You’re catching a ball in mid-air and coming down for the slam. With a layup, though, you’re catching, coming down, and you have to shoot back up while you are falling. It’s hard.

(Spoken like a true expert of hang time, I know).

Anyway, all this is to say that Dwyane Wade's one-handed alley-oop layup early in Game 5 of the 2012 NBA Finals was pretty impressive.


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