“Jellying” works best out in the open floor on a fast break. Hamidou Diallo is used to being there. When he doesn’t rise up for a thunderous two-handed, over-the-head slam dunk, Diallo puts a little “jelly” on a finger roll layup.
Leaping off one foot, legs split out like Jordan in the dunk contest, then curling the ball with one hand and flicking the wrist to knock it in off the backboard. That’s a jelly. It’s a call-out to 1,500 miles away, to the Jelly Fam movement back in New York City.
It started with Isaiah Washington.