It looks exactly this easy when it's right. It looks, oh, 95 percent easier than it actually is.

What it looks like, let us be perfectly specific, is this: Peja Stojakovic, coming off a screen, a defender maybe nine inches from his grill, rising up for an off-balance jump shot in absolute violation of every basic tenet of team basketball, a jump shot launched from roughly the trainer's table of the locker room.