This involves pitching the machine's nose up to reduce its forward velocity and increase the speed of rotation of the blades (and thus the amount of lift they provide) to soften the landing.
Humphries, who was the team's original starting power forward at the beginning of the season before falling out of the rotation, added 20 points and nine boards for Brooklyn.
More specifically it describes a low-pressure area whose center of rotation is just off the East Coast and whose leading winds in the left forward quadrant rotate onto land from the northeast.