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Message: [QUOTE="YKCornelius, post: 5236961, member: 9864"] Nah. Multiple views of the incident do not support what you are trying to sell, willtalk. First, your characterization of "outside defender" and "inside defender" is a little wonky. Presuming the "outside defender" is the one furtherest from the basket (DeShields), that player never touched JuJu with anything but her left hand grazing JuJu's arm prior to JuJu hitting the deck. DeShields knee was at least a foot away - maybe a foot and a half - from Watkins when JuJu went down. Everyone can see this clearly on the ESPN footage showing the play from multiple angles. Nothing to do with "subliminal wishes" for goodness sakes. The first time there is any contact is when Watkins and Prater pass the three point arc, with Prater being a half step in front of JuJu. At the moment of contact, JuJu's left arm contacts Prater's torso before - maybe just a millisecond before - the defender's right hand makes contact with JuJu's left hip. The contact with the hip is a result of JuJu's arm being overtop of Prater's arm which results in Prater's hand moving downward away from the ball. From that moment of first contact to the moment JuJU falls, maybe a tenth of a second goes by. There was no time for the refs to "have blown the whistle earlier". As multiple posters have stated, this play was a basketball play. Frankly, IMO the official should have swallowed his whistle since the it was incidental contact (at best) up to the point. Instead, a shooting foul was called even though there was no shooting motion whatsoever. I guess the referee assumed - like everybody watching the play - that there was no way in heck JuJu Watkins was going to pass the ball to her trailing teammate. Therefore a shot would have been forthcoming. Geez. An extremely unfortunate play to put an end to a wonderful season for JuJu Watkins. I wish her a full recovery so we can see her back on the court better than ever. [/QUOTE]

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