No sooner had the pass hit Jacob Crews’ palms than it was airborne again.

It was pure point-five basketball from the Missouri basketball wing. Receive the ball, make a choice in 0.5 seconds. Hello, goodbye. Catch, release. Instinct.

With a couple of minutes left in the first half, Jevon Porter had the ball at the top of the arc, looked for a shot but was met with a contest. He pivoted and fed the ball to the break, where Crews had cut from the baseline out to the perimeter.

Crews was at a horrible angle for a shot when the pass got to him. He was facing the opposite basket.

But, he got his feet set and twisted his body back toward the goal. His hands were working on in tandem. The wing let it fly, and the ball beat the contest to the air space. No wasted movement. Not a single ill-sp

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