“Muttered”?

Anson?

His scoring average declined along with his minutes every season, and the Mavs shipped him to Sacramento last month for pocket lint and a player named Cap Space.

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Your long-after-the-fact clarifications (four! what, three wouldn’t have been enough?) add nothing of value. You misunderstood the question I was asking, not to mention why the responses I was receiving were and remain inapposite to the question. Someone has since provided coherent, documented answers, which you…

Your long-after-the-fact clarifications (four! what, three wouldn’t have been enough?) add nothing of value. You misunderstood the question I was asking, not to mention why the responses I was receiving were and remain inapposite to the question. Someone has since provided coherent, documented answers, which you…

Thanks for this as well. Do you have any idea whether this rule is different at the NBA level, or if it’s been changed in recent years?

Much appreciated.

I’m perfectly willing to accept that it was called correctly; that’s not the issue at all. My original question was “can anyone explain to me why this counted as a three-pointer?”

“Aggressively ignorant contrarian” is three lies for the price of one, but you do you.

The hypotheticals 21 Savage posted make my point — in every other boundary situation that I’m aware of in basketball, the spot where his other foot last touched the floor (as in my screenshot) would be part of determining his established position, and no one seems to be able to offer a coherent answer as to why that’s…

The ego’s not fragile, and the question’s not dumb. Are you gonna be the one to step up and provide a rulebook-supported answer to “how do referees establish shot-attempt value when a player has established a position that straddles the three-point line?”

Is it nuance to think that the same principle that applies on boundary plays (position is established when both feet have touched down past a line) would apply on shots? What criteria determine whether a player 1) lifted one foot and jumped off the other, or 2) jumped off two feet? Cite a rule here.

Where a player’s feet are when he releases the ball isn’t relevant — you’ve never seen NBA referees check a replay for whether or not a player’s feet were behind the three-point line when he took off to shoot the ball? The screenshot isn’t “completely random”; it shows the last point where Wade’s left foot touched the…

It’s my understanding that two-pointer vs. three-pointer is determined by where a player’s feet are when he takes off. That’s something you see NBA referees consult video to determine, but the only thing up for discussion on the broadcast I saw was whether Wade got the ball out of his hands before the clock expired…

Can anyone explain to me why this counted as a three-pointer? Wade’s left foot was clearly a country mile inside the two-point line when he shot it, but either everyone missed it or I’m the only one who doesn’t know some nuance in the applicable rule.

I tell ya what

I saw someone on Twitter say that AC/DC really depressed the pay scale for such things.