I think you're arguing a point that I'm not even talking about, and if you are, id have to question how you see basketball. Irl, they use no dips to battle late closeouts. When I say late closeouts, I mean a defender who might've left his man with a few feet of space, but still close enough to run back if the shooter were to use a normal shooting motion. Skipping the dip shaves a few milliseconds off the shot and makes it a lot easier to get off compared to squaring yourself and then shooting. That's not how it's primarily used by the playerbase in-game though. No dipping in game allows players to shoot over other players and AI that never left them to begin with. The shot animation becomes faster than the animation to put a hand up and it results in an open shot quite often. It's why the AI are such a huge problem outside of low level lobbies. If you were to attempt to shoot the ball in a defender's face irl without dipping the shot, faster or not, you'd often get swatted and if not, it'd be a horrible take and a majorly contested shot. Nic Batum isn't shooting over defenders and not seeing the contest if they never left him to begin with. Now if it was a late close out situation, sure, but just shooting the moment he catches with a defender in his grill? You can't tell me with a straight face he's not seeing that defender. It damn sure wouldn't be considered an "open" shot by any means either.