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Does anyone know what the NBA's rationale is behind the present prohibition of looking at replays in this type of situation?
If I had been privy to the crew's conversation before the play, I probably would have not thought there would be anything wrong with their decision to disallow a catch-turn-shoot play. What i would not have considered--and presumably what they did not consider--is the type of play that occurred. Davis did not exactly catch, turn, and shoot. He had already begun squaring his body to the basket while the pass was in the air, clearly shaving some of the time necessary to square after catching the ball. Further, he certainly did not display a normal release on the play. He didn't shoot the ball so much as he pushed it. I didn't study the replay while thinking about this, but to the best of my recollection, he released the ball only slightly above chest level, not above his head as he normally would. I certainly don't think I have any groundbreaking analysis on this play; I guess I'm just concluding that it is dangerous to not allow in your mind for the possibility that plays you think you've seen many times cannot be executed generally in the same way, but with small, yet important differences.
jb
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