I subscribe to the 'Goorgianisation' theory, and it is not fair - or accurate - to say the referees 'allowed' it. It became what they were conditioned - through cynical repetitive thuggery - to see and accept as normal.In other words, it became the norm, which everyone grew to accept.
It's like pointless music smothering and keeping crowds out of games and, more to the point, modern footwork.
Many - probably most - shooters travel almost whenever they jump shoot because they always shift the same foot into the shot, irrespective of whether they landed on their left or right.
It's what they do every time, and the refs won't - almost can't - call it every time, so it becomes accepted.
And then we have Ennis. A few more of those three and four-step spectacular layups' - or dunks - and that will become the norm - if it isn't already - because that is what the refs, and everyone else, gets used to seeing and therefore registers as 'right'.
Which takes us back to Goorgian et al. The first few times it was 'did he really do that?' ... by which time it was too late to call.
The next few times it was blown, but they just kept on doing it, frequently and blatantly. This meant the refs simply missed some thuggery because it was so frequent. And because there was so much of it, they started to not blow much of that they did see, starting to make value judgements about what and what not to call for fear of 'blowing the game to pieces'.
And so, gradually but inexorably, it became the 'norm' - just like seeing shooters shift the wrong foot up and, more recently 'spectacular' - but illegal - three and four-step layups, which currently still often fall into that initial 'did he really do that?' category.
