(April 21, 2016 at 6:40 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The run up mainly serves to get his body moving in the correct direction for the throw. Watch closely and you'll see that he plants his back foot before releasing. It is surprisingly difficult to get a lot on a throw while you are on a dead run.
Sure, but the momentum doesn't just disappear when he plants his foot. If you watch after he releases the ball, he still has some forward momentum and places his other foot down, but a lot of that momentum will be transferred into the ball.
If you throw a ball standing still, you won't be able to get it moving as fast as you would if you have a run up, even if you plant a foot first. That's why long jumpers can jump further than people who do a standing jump. It's physics.
Again, not trying to say his throw wasn't amazing, because it was, but I doubt he'd get the same speeds if he was pitching.
