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but I can tell when a basketball is underinflated immediately,

Yep. There it matters...and it matters when kicking the ball. For throwing, not so much. Theisman, for example did some experimenting and said he can’t tell. Sports Science calculated and tested and found that for the figures being bandied about, the lower inflation *might* have as much effect as slowing the ball by .003 seconds on a 20 yard pass thrown at 50 mph...which is pretty trivial and in the “wrong” direction.

Hell the guy who caught the interception noticed it right away.

Yeah...he denies that he noticed anything at all. According to him, he was just keeping a souvenir.

Sorry, but 2 lbs per square inch on a ball is very noticeable, football, basketball, soccer ball... there is no way you can claim that you can’t tell.. the difference between 12.5-13.5 and 10.5 is VERY noticeable, that’s a 20% psi difference... that’s noticeable by anyone, let alone someone who’s a professional and does it for a living day in and day out.

I am not saying the Pats wouldn’t have won the game either way, but to claim you couldn’t tell or didn’t notice just doesn’t pass the smell test. Anyone will notice a 20% differential in pressure almost immediately, so long as they know what it should feel like in the first place.