Londonking said:5)..[alley oop pass]Where did that come from..I see no Alleys, and throwing a ball long for your team mate to execute a flying dunk seems to deserve more that a word which ends..'oop'.
VF21 said:French allez-oop, cry of circus acrobat about to leap, from allez, pl. imperative of aller, to go, from Old French aler, to walk. Thus, in basketball, alley oop is: a play in which a pass is lobbed above the basket and a player jumps up and attempts to catch the ball and score before returning to the floor.
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