Why dime assist

It means completing a difficult pass in basketball, which results in a basket, otherwise known as an assist. The basketball is often moved up and down the court with normal chests and bounce passes.

Sometimes that means dropping a dime. The first explanation of dropping dimes comes from the days of payphones, it would cost a dime to make a phone call.

Below is a video of Steve Nash talking about the theory and how it came into existence, which supports the phone call theory. This is when 10 cents were relevant for either food or could make a significant impact on society.

The term stuck however and we still use dropping a dime to this day. Another popular theory is that shooting a dime is in relation to how small the US dime really is. Placing the ball in such a perfect, small area, only a dime could fit through, is the reason behind the term.

Point guards are usually the position who drop the most dimes. Not just any regular ordinary easy pass. Much like dropping a dime referring to a perfectly timed pass in basketball, throwing a dime means the same.

Throwing a dime is used mostly in football and baseball, outside of basketball. In football, throwing a dime means a perfect pass. In baseball, it means making a perfect throw.

Quarterbacks are usually the only ones to throw in football. But you will hear it when a catcher makes a perfect throw to second. Or when an outfielder makes a perfect throw to get someone out.

A Quarterback should be able to make a perfect short pass, especially in the NFL. The NFL has defined throwing a dime as a pass that travels at least 30 yards in the air and fits into a window of one yard or less. A dime in basketball refers to an assist. Dropping a dime means a player makes a perfect pass resulting in a score, thus an assist. It used when the pass is pretty or perfect, sometimes both.

Phone calls from payphones normally cost 10 cents. It takes practice, perfect timing, and execution. Some players are gifted with the ability to physically pass better than others. But it also takes great vision by seeing where other players are. Great instincts and anticipation are also necessary to know when and where to pass. Players who drop dimes practice a lot and practice all different types of passes.

They also practice different speeds and types of passes, such as throws, or bounces passes. And if someone asks what that means, you can tell them it means a perfect pass and came from the days of the payphone. The term 'dropping dimes' started in law enforcement. It was picked up by basketball announcers because it meant 'making an assist.

They're probably better off trying to win and giving Philly the 8th pick than tanking and giving them the 4th. This is a hypothesis Dropping a dime is thus assisting in the capture of a criminal, and, by extension, assisting a teammate in a score. To quote: "In Kellogg's vernacular, a player doesn't make an assist, he "drops a dime. Then saying something else calling people stupid.

Then finally saying another thing and acting like it's what they where talking about all along and once again that everyone is stupid? Am I going crazy here or is this how everyone else feels?

It just shows that some people want to be right no matter what. So i'm done here. Originated at Rucker Park, where people would ask their homies to lend them a dime, and help out. So when they would start throwing assists, they would refer to it as dropping dimes. And you could be right on that's how assists got their name. I tend to think it's more hobo homeless slang.

There was a very famous jazz song called, "Brother can you spare a dime? It's like how, "Can you help a brother out? A dime "assisted" someone in buying lunch or booze -- now I'm caught-up in fifties slang. It could be a combo of both that and the police lingo. But, I tend to think it's more the homeless slang than the cop one. LMAO at somebody posting a wiki page as their main source to prove a point. From Urbandictionary. It seems much more reasonable that someone in the park used the slang for helping out the cops to describe helping a teammate score.

Bill Walton after comparing a Lebron dunk to Angel Falls wrote: Now that is a big waterfall and that was a big throwdown.