A compliment went over several people’s heads as Chet Holmgren praised fellow lanky seven-footer Kevin Durant for his season.
Finding out the future first-ballot Hall-of-Famer is shooting 52.2% from 3 on 4.5 attempts, Holmgren tipped his cap at the shooting stat on X, formerly known as Twitter:
“54 from treball is odee shooting hang pulls”
54 from treball is odee shooting hang pulls
— chet holmgren (@ChetHolmgren) November 21, 2023
The reply left several bewildered as to what Holmgren meant. Thankfully, his teammate Jalen Williams — who notoriously translates a lot of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s Instagram captions — offered an explanation.
- 54 from treball: Durant was shooting 54 percent on 3-pointers at the time of the stat. Treball is another word for 3-pointers.
- is odee: This essentially means that it’s crazy and cool that Durant is doing this.
- shooting hang pulls – This is the part that got most people stuck. This means Durant frequently uses a hesitation move into a pull-up 3-point jumper.
– odee = crazy
– 54 from the tre ball = 54 percent from the three
– hang pull = a hesitation dribble into a three point shot– Chet is basically saying to shoot 54 percent from the 3 point line all off the dribble is wildly impressive 🤓
— therealjalenwilliams (@jdubwttp) November 22, 2023
When asked about his comment after the Oklahoma City Thunder’s win over the Chicago Bulls, Holmgren jokingly suggested that outlets could’ve simply retweeted what he said instead of making an entire quote graphic out of it.
He also said that the ‘real ones’ knew what he meant.
“It wasn’t supposed to be like an English paper,” Holmgren joked. “I could probably work on my grammar a little bit.”
