Thank you Shaker for the gifs.
I did notice last nite the replant. It is common to see anymore at all levels, is never called, that I mostly overlook it. ESPN was showing the drop spin and it sure looked like an HE delivery. So I figured the communal brain trust would know!
Looking at the GIFs, what I see is: She is pulling the ball down the back side, seems to get IR as the arm goes 9 to 6 oclock. But it seems she does not get the brush and consequently, the whip we all so covetously seek. (at least when I compare to the gifs of Sarah P. Ueno etc.)
Do others agree?
I am interested as DD still does not get as much brush/whip as I think is optimal.
Thanks!
I don't see any HE here - sure she ends her arm with her arm up but you can see the IR turn before the ball leaves. Just how she ends her drop which really has an exaggerated arm motion - all her other pitches are straight IR with what looks like plenty of whip. As she is from Sydney and the Aussie program it is pretty likely she is working with Tanya Harding (the old one-season UCLA/pro/Olympian pitcher).
I will give her credit. Though she is still leaping she has made a major effort to change and get way lower. Re-learning how to drag after multiple years of doing it differently (and legally where she is from) over a college season must of been tough. Still illegal though. Hansen will be illegal all night as well as she always is.