Kenny Brooks gushes over Virginia Tech PG Georgia Amoore's step-back 3-point shot

Georgia Amoore‘s signature step-back jump shot has been a recurring highlight during Virginia Tech basketball game’s this season.

The senior guard has been a staple of the Hokies’ starting lineup for her entire career. Averaging a career-high 17.8 points per game this season, Amoore’s skills have been on full display in 2024 — and people are taking notice. So much so that head coach Kenny Brooks joined ESPN’s College GameDay to break down why her shot is so effective.

“I call her my mini me and I live vicariously through her talents right now,” Brooks said ahead of Sunday’s matchup against North Carolina. “I wasn’t able to do those things, but when we first got her we knew we had something very special. A lot of people will talk about this step-back is that it’s creating separation. Yes, it creates separation. But what we’ve learned is she’s going to create separation with her crossover, it gets the defense leaning one way. And now what happens is we want to change the angle of the pursuit.

“If you look at the pursuit, she’s a smaller guard and they’re going to run to where they think she is going. That’s when the setback becomes very, very effective because they’re chasing her at a different angles and she changes the angle of the pursuer, and now she’s created that separation where she can get the shot off.”

"If you want to make some chicken salad, you've got to have some chicken." 😂

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Brooks admitted that it’s not as easy as drawing it up on a white board. Instead, the Hokies headman said it takes extreme talent to make that move — but it wasn’t something she learned overnight.

He wanted to take her step-back and turn it into a weapon. With her standing just 5-foot-6, she’s more often than not one of the shorter players on the court at any given time. Brooks noted that even when the opposition might be bigger, stronger or faster, she’s able to make the right call and more often than not, make a play with her signature move.

“Every day, we go through a series of footwork drills. It doesn’t have to be 100%, but this is training her brain. She’ll take it, and the beauty is I’ll show her what I want. She’s taken it and made it her own to where it’s a lot better than what I could demonstrate. … But it’s a thing of beauty of what she’s done.

“I get a lot of coaches that will call me and say, ‘Hey, how do you do this with her?’ First and foremost, if you want to make some chicken salad, you’ve gotta have some chicken. She’s really good at that. And so for me, I’ve just taken what she has and developed it even more, but she’s really made it her own.”

While she’s a senior, Amoore still has one season of eligibility remaining — something that fans attending ESPN College GameDay inside Cassell Coliseum were well aware of, chanting ‘One more year” at the standout guard before she joined the show in an earlier segment.

That decision likely won’t be made until the end of Virginia Tech’s season. For now, the Hokies are focused on Sunday’s ACC matchup against the Tar Heels. Opening tip is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET live on the ACC Network.