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Did Ross get truly de-sneakered or was it a double dribble?

Was this a legal crossover or did both hands get on the dribble?

  • Legal crossover

    Votes: 16 42.1%

  • Double dribble

    Votes: 22 57.9%
  • Total voters
    38
I was at the game and when I saw it live, I thought it was a carry. Watching the replay now, it appears to be a legal dribble. It looks weird but his hand does not go under the ball so it is not a carry (or double dribble).
 
Thanks for sharing this - completely missed that in real time. I've been reading lot of negative comments here about Ross on that play. We don't make it to overtime without his defense and rebounding down the stretch. He also recovered very well from that move.....
 
Real time looked illegal. Replay probably clean.

That's the thing about basketball though. When refs see something that LOOKS weird, they're gonna blow the whistle. They've gotta make a decision in a millisecond.

High energy but erratic players like Ross are always gonna be at a disadvantage with these kinds of calls.
 
Marbles90 said:
I was at the game and when I saw it live, I thought it was a carry. Watching the replay now, it appears to be a legal dribble. It looks weird but his hand does not go under the ball so it is not a carry (or double dribble).
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People are suggesting he touches the ball with his 2nd hand at the same time as the 1st, which would make it a double dribble, as opposed to putting his hand under the ball.
 
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husky429 said:
Real time looked illegal. Replay probably clean.

That's the thing about basketball though. When refs see something that LOOKS weird, they're gonna blow the whistle. They've gotta make a decision in a millisecond.

High energy but erratic players like Ross are always gonna be at a disadvantage with these kinds of calls.
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Yeah I think it's impossible to tell from the replay.
 
I don’t fault Ross for it, it’s a great move. If it’s that difficult to decipher whether he touched it with both hands, I call that a great move.

When I used to be able to hoop, I used this move plenty because my pull up was solid. Nail a few Js, then give the guy a hesi where you bring your second hand close to make it look like a pull up. Looked clean to me.
 
auror said:
People are suggesting he touches the ball with his 2nd hand at the same time as the 1st, which would make it a double dribble, as opposed to putting his hand under the ball.
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That’s what it looks like to me. Picture below of the replay. But it happened so fast it’s hard to expect a ref to call that. And I don’t think that’s why Ross jumped like that.
 

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HooperScooper said:
That’s what it looks like to me. Picture below of the replay. But it happened so fast it’s hard to expect a ref to call that. And I don’t think that’s why Ross jumped like that.
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It's absolutely why Ross jumped. It convincingly looked like a gather for a jump shot, legal or otherwise.
 
In real time it looked like a carry. Replay shows that it wasn’t. It looks like a double dribble. But hard to tell from that angle, he is pulling his left hand away as the ball is coming down towards it. Post #10 shows the instant that it would be a double dribble, but the left hand is behind the ball in the frame so can’t tell if it touched or not

Right when it happened 5-6 seconds into the video, he looks down at the ball and his body looks like he is caught off guard and is racing to get it back. Meaning it probably touched his other hand and didn’t go in the trajectory he expected if it was a clean dribble

So based on HEAVY speculation, I’m calling it illegal. Looks cleaner on the replay than it did in real time though. Really close
 
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Think Ross played more than enough great defense this game to be okay if this was a clean move.

People get beat sometimes, it happens. 90% of the time he's putting the clamps on his opponent still.
 
HW611 said:
Think Ross played more than enough great defense this game to be okay if this was a clean move.

People get beat sometimes, it happens. 90% of the time he's putting the clamps on his opponent still.
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It was either an incredible move or a double dribble. I don't fault Ross at all here. I actually think he was committed to the jump shot and adjusted when he knew Ross wasn't going to let him get it off.
 
auror said:
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yea that last slowed down frame confirms there weren't two hands on the ball, great move by Lindsay without the finish. I posted Jordan Poole doing something similar to Damion Lee in the game thread, same spot on the floor with Lee biting just like Ross but not as exaggerated and Poole also went for the floating bank shot finish.
 
HooperScooper said:
That’s what it looks like to me. Picture below of the replay. But it happened so fast it’s hard to expect a ref to call that. And I don’t think that’s why Ross jumped like that.
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I don’t see that and I’m not sure you can tell on that screen shot.
 
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I can't tell if is a double dribble or not but I'd have to think refs would call it 50% of the time regardless.
 
If you want to see some questionable carries watch Vaaks tonight.
 
In real time I yelled "double dribble!" because I thought he had touched it with his off hand. Hard to tell convincingly even in the replay. Filthy move either way and close enough to get away with it if it was.
 
Whether it should be legal is up for debate, but it's a clean move and one that is used by a lot of players. Very few in college though because it's a tough one to pull off without actually double dribbling like Lindsay did
 
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Both hands clearly on ball here before putting it back on the floor. This was immediately after the ball bounced upward. So if his left hand wasn’t on the ball, the ball would be on the floor.
 

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