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Originally Posted by MJT
I didn't see the entire clarification, but did he have possession of the ball with the first "pick up" or was he bobbling it then?
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It appeared to me that his foot left the floor and returned, by a very tiny amount, after he had gathered the ball.
It still is shameful the way CBS has covered this.
They screamed and screamed about Green "lifting his pivot foot," not just after the game but an hour later. When they figured out they were wrong, they looked for a post hoc justification to avoid looking silly and never admitted their overreaction.
If at the end of the game they had said, "it looked like he may have taken a littly bunny hop with his pivot foot," but that's a tough judgment call, or something like that, fine. But to basically call the officials out and suggest they didn't know the rule is disgusting.
Not because it's unfair for the officials. They're big boys. But it's not fair to the teams -- either one of them -- and their fans.