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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4160103, member: 405"]
I am so impressed with how much touch Jesse has on his shot, out to 6-8 feet.  It's like a tennis ball in his hand, and he uses the glass so well!  He banks a lot of shots at sharp angles sometimes, and they almost always go in.  I don't know that I've ever seen a player since I was a little kid who had such control of the ball, while attacking the basket at high speeds.

Bill Walton used to have what I always thought was about the perfect bank shot and use of the glass, such as his 21-22 game against Memphis in the NCAA Final.  But the way John Wooden seemed to teach those guys to shoot the bank shot (like Keith Wilkes and David Meyers and Richard Washington and so many others) - well, they put more "loop" into the shot, more arc, and it always struck me as almost like a billiards shot, the touch those guys would have on their bank shots.

Larry Bird, too, and a handful of others of that era were great at that, which I think is kind of a lost art in today's world of analytics.

The thing about Jesse that's different, is he really drills it sometimes, at very tight angles, and really bangs those shots home.  His technique is different than anybody I've seen since Connie Hawkins or George Gervin or Wilt the Stilt.  Those guys had amazing ball control.

Edit - let me add Dominque Wilkins to that list, too.
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