Sixers

Markelle Fultz Didn’t Look Bad Last Night

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Oct 8th, 2019 · 9:15 AM EDT

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You see the Markelle highlights floating around on social media Monday night?

He didn’t look bad at all.

Check out this athletic strip and run out:

Markelle Fultz rips out a steal and goes coast-to-coast for the SLAM! pic.twitter.com/2gp7Do00IM

— Beyond the RK (@beyondtheRK) October 8, 2019

Behind the back dribble, left should shrug to create room for himself, then the one-handed flush. I love it.

Here’s another one:

https://twitter.com/TheRenderNBA/status/1181352303120539648?s=20

That looked pretty clean to me, less like a shot put and more like the shooting form we saw in college. In Philly last year, his most successful shot was that pull-up foul line jumper, so this was about two feet inside of the stripe, where he looked comfortable in 2018 before coming out of the lineup with the shoulder issue.

On other shots, it seems like the trajectory is a little lower, maybe just as a way to keep his arms from extending too far above his head to compensate for the TOS problem:

Here’s a full reel of the preseason game vs. Detroit:

https://youtu.be/wv1-3JYkXM0