The finger roll is a specialized type of basketball layup shot where the ball is rolled off of the tips of the player's fingers. Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m See also Basketball moves A layup in Basketball is a two point attempt made by leaping from below laying the ball up near the basket and using one hand to The advantage of the finger roll is that the ball can travel high in the air over a defender that might otherwise block a regular jump shot or dunk, while the spin applied by the rolling over the fingers will carry the ball to the basket off the backboard. See also Basketball moves In Basketball (and derivatives like Netball) a jump shot is an attempt to score a basket by jumping usually straight The shot was pioneered by the center Wilt Chamberlain in the 1960s [1]. Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21 1936&ndashOctober 12 1999 nicknamed Wilt the Stilt, The Big Dipper, and Chairman of the Boards
The finger roll is notorious for being very difficult to master, and few players use the shot as their primary shot. One famous exception was San Antonio Spurs forward George Gervin who turned the shot into a nearly invincible weapon when he led the National Basketball Association in scoring between 1978 and 1980. The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional Basketball team based in San Antonio Texas. George "The Iceman" Gervin (born April 27 1952 in Detroit Michigan) is a retired American professional Basketball player a Shooting guard
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