I think you're missing the point of this entire argument, and I tried to explain it here.
The whole point is that in Basketball, it's not a dead-ball situation when a player is holding the ball, in Ultimate Frisbee, it is.
All the rules (I've named seven in this article) in Ultimate are oriented around the game being 'dead' when the thrower has established a pivot foot, and therefore maintaining a pivot foot is paramount to the entire framework.
Ultimate players want their cake and they want to eat it too. They want all the benefits and advantages that all these seven rules give them AND they want to completely disrespect the notion of a pivot foot.
You can't have it both ways. Either rip out all of the deadball rules and compare Ultimate to Basketball or rip out all the continuous play rules and have a reset after every single completion (with both the offense and defense setting up, player subs, etc.).
I really want to see some basketball players tear the pivot bit apart
I think you're missing the point of this entire argument, and I tried to explain it here.
The whole point is that in Basketball, it's not a dead-ball situation when a player is holding the ball, in Ultimate Frisbee, it is.
All the rules (I've named seven in this article) in Ultimate are oriented around the game being 'dead' when the thrower has established a pivot foot, and therefore maintaining a pivot foot is paramount to the entire framework.
Ultimate players want their cake and they want to eat it too. They want all the benefits and advantages that all these seven rules give them AND they want to completely disrespect the notion of a pivot foot.
You can't have it both ways. Either rip out all of the deadball rules and compare Ultimate to Basketball or rip out all the continuous play rules and have a reset after every single completion (with both the offense and defense setting up, player subs, etc.).