I’m watching the Hawks game right now and a great example of what I’m talking about occurs at the 4:44 mark. Granger catches the ball about 19-20ft. away from the basket on the right wing with Joe Johnson right in front of him. You can tell he’s going to take the jumpshot as soon as he catches it, but he gives two half-hearted jab steps and then rises up. Johnson is right there to contest the shot. Maybe I feel like I’m seeing this more often than it’s actually occurring because it’s one of those things that makes me absolutely nuts.

I agree though that when the whole offense, including Hibbert, was clicking more at the beginning of the season Granger didn’t feel he had to take that shot.

Thanks again for the link Tim!

Also, Granger picked up his fifth foul only 24 seconds after Dunleavy had gone to the bench. Dunleavy had played about the previous 10 minutes of game time. George was ineffective, so it’s not like there were a lot options, particularly given the Spurs playing two small guards.

Pulling Dunleavy, when he’d scored 9 of the last 13 Pacers points, and bringing in a 2nd point guard 2 minutes later when DG got his 5th foul seems unfortunately not to be fluky behavior on JOB’s part either.

Kudos to O’brien for starting Tyler. Frustrated sigh directed his way for the 4th qtr substitutions.