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This miss was entirely a mechanical failure. L was ball watching when the drive started. That's T's drive to take the basket, not L's. L should have become fixated on the lane lurker as a potential secondary defender; if he had, there's a good chance he sees the play from the start and correctly calls the defensive foul. Instead, L watched the drive and the contact surprised him. Maybe C could have helped, but he ended up being pretty straightlined and I'm not sure he could have avoided that given how quickly all of the action moved toward the basket. This was all on L; it exploded in his lap and he missed the call because he wasn't refereeing the defense.
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