I think this would be easier to explain using strips of paper. Start by placing the strips horizontally, drawing a vertical line across all of them with a red pen. Then, shift the strips to the right relative to each other to represent latency. Next, having fold a section of each strip onto itself to shorten them beforehand, unfold them to show an extended length representing delay. Finally, fold them back again to represent waiting for the remaining delay from the transmit track.

No. It's not easier mate. I don't know what I just read...

To be fair, you read a description of their method, rather than them using the method in front of you.