In Reply to: I didn't do a slo motion or stop action on that play posted by traprh on December 22, 2024 at 13:39:46
times. I completely disagree with 2 other takes in this thread. I'll break down what I unequivocally saw in the following. But my short version is that a frazzled DA all game long, continued to wet his pants in the final 22 secs all by his lonesome.
DA positioned himself to get an unimpeded pass directly in his hands. There was space between DA and his primary defender when he grasped the clean pass. The problem instantly surfaced (as is often the case), when DA with the ball seemingly totally in his grasp, immediately turned to dribble upcourt when he then saw the NoCar double coming right at him. DA, with 22 secs left, knew that he had only 10 secs to dribble or dribble/pass the ball past midcourt but his hands weren't in on the tell. He lost control of the ball almost immediately on his own without a No Car defender touching the ball. DA alone fumbled the ball and before he could control things, the ball slithered out of his hands, off his knee and out-of-bounds under the No Car basket. The 'uh-oh" from Rafferty behind the mic couldn't have been clearer.
It was the same DA who missed every one of his shots but 1, and whose TO's outnumbered his assists. He had a lot on his ball-centric mind and his actions in those couple of seconds put the finishing strokes on his dismal portrait in that 40-min MSG disaster of his.