I posted about this a while back. In my initial post, people informed me that if the cb is in the air during contact, that you would overcut the ob IF you were aimed properly that is....... but I have recently come to a new conclusion......
When you are jumping, and the cb is in the air when it contacts the ob, i contend that the path of the ob will be the same (or more likely very similar) as it would if the cb was on the bed of the table. Here is why: as the cb "passes" in the air the point it would contact if it were on the bed of the table, what it does is hit a point higher on the ob, and further away (thus the "passes" description). At first, one may think to himself that if you "pass" the contact point, that this will result in an overcut. Yet, this "passing" of the contact point will be exactly counteracted by the "delay" in contact resulting from the curve in the lower part of the cb.
This definitely makes sense in the way most all players (that i can see) aim jump shots (including myself). People seem to aim them just as they would aim if they were shooting center ball with a level stroke.
The only deviation from this "normal" path on a jump shot may come from the ob being struck from a slightly downward angle, but other than that, I think aiming of jump shots should technically be pretty much the same as aiming of center ball shots.
When you are jumping, and the cb is in the air when it contacts the ob, i contend that the path of the ob will be the same (or more likely very similar) as it would if the cb was on the bed of the table. Here is why: as the cb "passes" in the air the point it would contact if it were on the bed of the table, what it does is hit a point higher on the ob, and further away (thus the "passes" description). At first, one may think to himself that if you "pass" the contact point, that this will result in an overcut. Yet, this "passing" of the contact point will be exactly counteracted by the "delay" in contact resulting from the curve in the lower part of the cb.
This definitely makes sense in the way most all players (that i can see) aim jump shots (including myself). People seem to aim them just as they would aim if they were shooting center ball with a level stroke.
The only deviation from this "normal" path on a jump shot may come from the ob being struck from a slightly downward angle, but other than that, I think aiming of jump shots should technically be pretty much the same as aiming of center ball shots.