“I could make that” is the common refrain of the American sports watching aficionado. Whether “that” is an uncontested three or short jumper, a simple swing pass to the flat, or the throw from second base to first, it’s hard to watch a sporting event live without hearing someone loudly bemoan that they could, indeed, do the thing that the high level athlete cannot.
This is nonsense, of course, given that most fans have probably never played in front of a crowd that wasn’t composed largely of parents of the participants and almost none of them have ever tried to do anything while being chased/jumped at/in the presence of a 6-6, 230 pound freak of nature.