Response to Who Invented the Jump Shot

Who Invented the Jumpshot was certainly interesting. I've read stories similar to this in structure and have always liked the technique. It is a structure that lends itself to natural processes of memory, and you can often see that too in the way the voice sometimes is blasting through a series of ideas or words like you would in your own mind. I also really liked how the speaker seemed like an omniscient narrator, but really was not. We are only in the mind of the academic who is introduced at the beginning, but through his knowledge, through his great storytelling, and his ability to put himself in other character's shoes, we are given a very unique perspective and a very unique voice. 

I felt that the structure was very well formed, and the transitions were easily followed and yet still interesting. I liked how at one point, the story shifted focal points, but when we came back to where we were, "Rastus still stands where we left him, hoodooed by the Harlem Globies' flyer." I think it was a really useful technique because in a story that bounces around like this, it helps to make each segment a unique space, and this image of coming back to Rastus in the same place and time to see him doing the same thing gives a feeling of teleporting into these different times and places, and helps with some spatial awareness in the story.

There's some triumph in the story, I feel, becaue although the white academics have won the debate about the jump shot, it is really simple-minded Rastus who has invented something of worth: CPR.