I love the way Marco Belinelli shoots the ball. Spurs fans might be totally done with him (and I don’t blame them, he hasn’t been great), but I don’t have to see all the times he took a horrible fading three for no reason and it didn’t go in. I get to see the times it DID go in, and in my opinion, there is no shot in the NBA more aesthetic than one of Belinelli’s leaners.
If you haven’t seen it already, you should really go check out my three-ilation for him from last season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJTzSwsWgo . It’s basically the sickest thing ever, possibly my favorite three-ilation from last year. Maybe my favorite for ALL TIME. Not even joking. Just watch it. I promise I didn’t RickRoll you, look at that URL, you know what the RickRoll URL looks like and that ain’t it.
This is my first Belinelli vid of the year, which is horrible, but it’s the truth. He just hasn’t been good in the times he does get to play, and he’s not getting to play as much. He did have a 17-burger early in the season, but a closer analysis of the situation revealed that he only hit 4 buckets, so no vid was made. This one is a little better: 16 points, 6 buckets, and all the buckets are of the “crappy jumper” variety. And it wouldn’t be a Belinelli video if it didn’t have at least one shot where he’s fading out of bounds while shooting it over the entire opposing team.