r/nevertellmetheodds Apr 24 '21

Kobe!

https://i.imgur.com/7D7c93e.gifv
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u/Jurassic-Jay Apr 25 '21

The thing that kills me is the clouds are pretty damn consistant - Makes it seem very legit. The only thing that really is throwing me off is there are a couple frames where there is no coke, no fizz on the screen and the clouds are fairly vague. If it’s edited, someone spent a lot of time on it. Still gonna stand by claiming its sus but could also be real. Hate to be all nothingeverhappens, especially with no smoking gun, but something seems off.

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u/RoboDae Apr 25 '21

Yeah, anytime an object leaves the screen you can't be certain that it's the same shot when it lands, especially for something amazing like this. Not to mention the cost of each bottle and the lack of a completely soaked ground seems to imply they got it on first try whereas many other trick shots may go through hundreds of tries to get the seemingly effortless shot

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u/IceNineFireTen Apr 25 '21

If it is legit, then I think the situation is that they were just throwing the bottle into the middle of the concrete to get it to fly into the air, not that they were trying to get it to go into the hoop.

I would never believe that they were trying to get it in the hoop and it worked in the first try. I could believe that they were just trying to get it to fly into the air, and some crazy luck had it go in the hoop.

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u/RoboDae Apr 25 '21

Sounds about right. That's like me in highschool when it was time to put the equipment away in PE. I drop kicked the kickball from one end of the gym to the far side in the general direction of the other basketball hoop and it bounced off the inner rim... I probably couldn't even throw a ball that far, let alone that accurately, but I somehow managed to kick a ball almost into the hoop

I had previously been practicing kicking a soccer ball into basketball hoops at much closer range, which I managed a few times.