A kinematic interpretation for quasiresonant vibration-rotation collisional transfer (QRT) is outlined based on the angular momentum (AM) theory. QRT provides a particularly stringent test since as rotational AM increases, energy decreases (or vice versa). We demonstrate using velocity-AM plots for (A) (1)Sigma(u) Li-2-Ne that although experimentally spectacular, in kinematic terms it constitutes only a slightly unusual energetic constraint to the linear-to-angular momentum conversion.