Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌

I am pro banana, but not pro banana republic.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

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
https://t.co/65fxrZyD0k

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

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.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@dookieyuki @DrCameronMurray @bballbreakdown @BenStiller As a thought experiment consider what would happen if somebody stands on one leg and then stops dribbling. What is he allowed to do?

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@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.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@dookieyuki @DrCameronMurray @bballbreakdown @BenStiller The key is that Step 1 happened with his left foot. The foot was touching the floor after the gather but before the jump.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

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.

https://t.co/8ZQbKp2zYk

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@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.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@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.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

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.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@AlexMultiFamily @Gam_987 @PatchesThaHyena @thomaschattwill The right foot was his pivot foot (at best).

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@Gam_987 @PatchesThaHyena @AlexMultiFamily @thomaschattwill It really wasn't close to being legal. If his final jump was off his left foot rather than his right foot, it would have been close.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@rhythmpoetdonut @MoundLore @TheHoopHerald After the gather and jump stop, he moved both potential pivot feet before leaving the floor. Not just a little. A lot.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@TheHoopHerald Isn't that traveling?

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@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.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@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.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@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.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@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.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

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.

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@potheadsession @sentdefender @MalcolmNance Huh? Who told you? I never heard that.

[Sonny Masterson 🍌🍌 @sunmaster14]

@ClimateAudit Oh, I really think you should give California lawmakers the credit here.

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@oidonhagouda @SpamRanger Japan should stop acting like the pussified Europeans when it comes to Israel.