Griffin won a hard-fought jump ball, but Paul missed a desperation 3-point attempt as the shot clock went off.

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To make a basketball analogy, it's a bit like when your tin-armed, non-jump-shooting center gets the ball near the three-point line: You know he won't shoot or thread the ball into the post, so you have a moment's respite while he looks for a guard to bail him out.

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That 6.2% jump marked the biggest ball-sharing increase for a defending champion in 61 years, according to Stats LLC.

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But with the seconds ticking down Bath regained the ball and spun it out wide where Crockett put boot to ball for Banahan to out-jump Cueto and score the match-winning try.

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If Jonny knew what he was going to do, if we knew what he was going to do and if the Australians knew what he was going to do - why didn't someone jump on him before he got the ball?

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Like a basketball player getting ready for a jump ball, or a sprinter in the starting blocks, every able-bodied passenger needs to be ready to move, and to act definitively, not tentatively.

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The centre won the jump for the ball and, sucking in Scottish defenders, recycled the ball to his fly-half.

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But it all stopped after a sequence in which Crosby made a steal and her left-handed layup missed, Franklin rebounded and missed twice, the second called a jump ball.

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