Video: Iman Shumpert Is Good at Sports

by Seth on Oct 31, 2011 2:34 PM EDT in Videos

I think it's pretty much certain at this point that Iman Shumpert is single-handedly preserving my interest in basketball. If it weren't for his Twitter account, and especially the videos he posts of himself training, I'd already be out in the streets eating pedestrians and fornicating with garbage. But Shump won't let that happen. Shump cares, and that's why Shump keeps the dream alive with videos like this one:

Iman Shumpert on WhoSay

A few things of note:

- That's fellow Georgia Tech-to-New York rookie Alex Montgomery of the Liberty training alongside Iman. Pretty cool to have someone making the same transition he's making, and even cooler that they're working out together.

- That drill where you snatch basketballs off the floor and tomahawk them in rapid succession? I can't do that anymore. Not since the accident.

- About halfway through, Iman hits a TON of catch-and-shoot jumpers.

- As usual, I'm pretty sure that's Shump rapping. As usual, Shump proves to be a genuinely talented rapper.

- #NoDaysOff

I can't thank you enough, Iman. You're all that's standing between me and a basketball-deprived fugue state/crime spree.

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I can't wait to see this guy play in games.

He may be the single coolest NBA player not named Renaldo Balkman or Walt Frazier of all time.

by Osborn on Oct 31, 2011 2:52 PM EDT reply actions

Ah ah ah!

Have we already forgotten Landry Fields?! But yes, I’m super stoked to see this guy play. I really think we got a real player on our hands

by WSD on Oct 31, 2011 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions

this fella gonna make us forget landry

i gots me a feelin

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by stingy d on Oct 31, 2011 7:54 PM EDT up reply actions

And thus stingy was smitten for his transgression

Stainer of mountaintops.

by Chairman Meow on Oct 31, 2011 9:04 PM EDT up reply actions

phil jackson, bill walton, LJ (grand mama), shaq, sprewell, artest, AI

Some of those guys must be higher on the cool list

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by mindfeck on Nov 1, 2011 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions

Spree makes mine for sure!

Other than that, it’s pretty damn tough to beat Landry

by WSD on Nov 1, 2011 4:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Sooo....

It’s not okay to be fornicating with garbage…? That’s been going on awhile with me

by WSD on Oct 31, 2011 3:13 PM EDT reply actions

It's a weird world

Perhaps try doing the opposite of what Seth (would) do: it might turn out to be okay to fornicate with pedestrians and eat garbage.

Sometimes you might wanna check with the pedestrians first, though (chewing gum to get rid of that garbage breath will do your chances no harm, should you choose to try it).

"Hey, I'm a reasonable guy. But I've just experienced some very unreasonable things." --Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China) expressing in 1986 what every Knicks fan would feel twenty years later.

by LaConte on Oct 31, 2011 10:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh and that series of dunks

After the picking the ball up off the floor… holy shit.

by WSD on Oct 31, 2011 3:20 PM EDT reply actions

yeah the team of fifth graders I assistant coach after school

HATES the pick up the balls and tomahawk slam as fast as you can drill

Anxiously awaiting the day my username will be appropriate

by knickswin on Oct 31, 2011 3:43 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs

who said he can't shoot?

that jumper looks pretty on point to me

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by Taylor Made on Oct 31, 2011 6:18 PM EDT reply actions

To be fair,

if you video taped me in a high school gym for long enough, you’d get some pretty sweet jump shot footage too.

Stainer of mountaintops.

by Chairman Meow on Oct 31, 2011 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

including 21 in a row?

plus you can just watch his form and see that it’s not just luck that he’s knocking them down

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by Taylor Made on Nov 1, 2011 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions

NBA can't shoot is not the same as you and I can't shoot.

Put the average NBA player in a gym with no shot clock pressure or a defender in his face and they can all pretty much shoot. Remember Iman Shumpert is one of the top 1% of basketball players on the planet. It is just like when you see quarterbacks at the draft combine do the tire drill. Virtually all of them can throw a ball through a tire from 35 yards, even the ones that do not get drafted, but it is a different thing when they have to deliver a ball on target with a 300lb defensive lineman chasing them.

by Robert Curre on Nov 1, 2011 12:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Except Rondo.

He can’t hit anything.

by schmosterballs92 on Nov 1, 2011 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah I think there are guys at my school's gym who are definitely better shooters than Rondo

I have some friends who are money from three and I doubt Rondo is that even in an empty gym

Anxiously awaiting the day my username will be appropriate

by knickswin on Nov 1, 2011 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions

form looks smooth and consistent, though, and that's what matters.

by frilly on Nov 1, 2011 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions

but i agree that we wont know until we see him in a game.

by frilly on Nov 1, 2011 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm sure she doesn't appreciate being called "garbage," Seth.

"It was one of those good, deep sleeps; you know, the ones where you wake up and a stream of drool is steadily racing down your shirt? Yes, that kind of sleep." -Landry Fields

by Thelonious Dunk on Oct 31, 2011 6:25 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs

Ha!

by flossy on Oct 31, 2011 7:09 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

that dunking drill

is all kinds of absurd. seriously, who can actually do that? What’s with these Chicago athletes lately?

by chris-9999 on Oct 31, 2011 7:09 PM EDT reply actions

I seriously love that he did that to exhaustion.

Fish Fingers give me a break.

by GAx on Oct 31, 2011 9:42 PM EDT up reply actions

i am going to do these drills

i wanna make a beat with a basketball while doing sit ups. and shoot shots. and dunk like a madman.

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by stingy d on Oct 31, 2011 7:56 PM EDT reply actions

I have been doing the chair drill

And have continually juked the chair out and beaten it to the rim. I must admit that I do get tired after about a half dozen pick up and dunks.

by YuckFou on Oct 31, 2011 10:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Somebody should take just the pick-up-and-dunk drill segment of that video

and force Jared Jeffries to watch it on an endless loop, Clockwork Orange-style

by flossy on Nov 1, 2011 6:13 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs

Also, WTF is up with the new colorway for the site??

Black on gray? What is this, NetsDaily? Do not want.

by flossy on Nov 1, 2011 6:14 AM EDT reply actions

It'll be like this for a couple of days

All the NBA blogs did it because today would have been the first day of the season. I don’t know.

Posting and Toasting: DWTDD.

by Seth on Nov 1, 2011 7:37 AM EDT up reply actions

That's kinda funny actually.

I thought it was for another network-wide ad I’d somehow ducked under thanks to Adblock.

Fish Fingers give me a break.

by GAx on Nov 1, 2011 9:11 AM EDT up reply actions

So I guess we're all at half-staff, then?

[lobs it up for Rorschach…]

by flossy on Nov 1, 2011 10:12 AM EDT up reply actions

wow.

i didnt realize today would have been the first day. just kinda forgot.

all kinds of sad now.

I think it was Bobby V who said: "You are never as good as you are when you are at your best, and you are not as bad as when you are at your worst."

Like the really funny uncle with a healthy bourbon habit who matches every brilliant Thanksgiving story with one or two ill-advised racist jokes or boob grabs, we’re stuck with Melo. So we might as well learn to love him — quirks and all. http://knickerblogger.net/2011-report-card-carmelo-anthony/

by gbaked on Nov 1, 2011 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions