I had forgotten about this from Jan. 3, 2017. Here is Chuck Schumer actually saying something prescient. "You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at ya." -Chuck Schumer
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The rules do not mention step zero. They mention the first step as being when a foot touches the floor after the ball is gathered. I think people refer to a zero step as being the step taken while the ball is gathered but where momentum is clearly carrying the player forward so that another step is forced after the gather is complete.
@dookieyuki@DrCameronMurray@bballbreakdown@BenStiller False. I watched it 0.25x speed several times. He clearly has gathered the ball, and his left foot is still touching the floor. You don't have to touch the floor with another step after the gather. You just have to touch the floor.
A player who gathers the ball while progressing may take (1) two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball, or (2) if he has not yet dribbled, one step prior to releasing the ball. A player who gathers the ball while dribbling may take two steps in coming to a stop, passing, or shooting the ball.
The first step occurs when a foot, or both feet, touch the floor after gaining control of the ball.
The second step occurs after the first step when the other foot touches the floor, or both feet touch the floor simultaneously.
A player who comes to a stop on step one when both feet are on the floor or touch the floor simultaneously may pivot using either foot as his pivot. If he jumps with both feet he must release the ball before either foot touches the floor.
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@dookieyuki@DrCameronMurray@bballbreakdown@BenStiller He didn't gather into a jump step. He had completely gathered while he was touching the floor with his left foot and before the jump step. The jump step was his second step. If he had landed only on his left foot, everybody would recognize it as a hop.
@dookieyuki@DrCameronMurray@bballbreakdown@BenStiller No he didn't. The gather happened while his left foot was on the floor. He was allowed the jump/step, but whichever foot lands first is the pivot foot, and if both feet land simultaneously, they both are pivot feet, meaning he can't lift either one without releasing the ball.
Even more egregious is that the gather clearly happened while his left foot was on the floor, which means that, while the jump stop was legal, he doesn't get a pivot foot at all (or, if you will, both feet are considered pivot feet). He can't take either foot off the floor without letting go of the ball.
@BridgetPhetasy Amazing. The so-called Epstein class could just as easily be called the Hunter Biden class, given his own transgressions and the pardon he received. Unless of course Epstein class really means Jews, which it probably does to people like him and Thomas Massie.
@markames1969@gbrew24 In technical terms, at least Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.
But I said "make peace," not end war. I think "make peace" hasn't happened for any country that refuses even to recognize Israel as a state.
@chipflare@dalibali2 The Soviet Union declared war *after* the Hiroshima bombing, so it might be a moot point if the Soviet Union wouldn't have declared war absent the bombing.
@markames1969@gbrew24 By your logic, it makes no sense for the Arab states to not make peace with Israel.
Yet, for some reason, I suspect you support their decision not to.
There is a difference between closing off an international waterway and launching unprovoked attacks on another country's sovereign territory.
For starters, it is harder to do the latter. The targets are further away and protected.
More importantly perhaps is that it will invite severe retaliation. It is war. War is always an option, but it invites severe consequences.