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The main argument is that he shuffled his pivot foot at the start of the move
I unequivocally say it wasn't a travel
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https://streamable.com/m96vqi
The main argument is that he shuffled his pivot foot at the start of the move
I unequivocally say it wasn't a travel
Yeah I can't see why you would call this a travel at all.
Strictly speaking, it is a travel unless his right foot was grounded when he gathered the ball
It's one of the least egregious travels you could think of, thoughQuote:
In starting a dribble after (1) receiving the ball while standing still, or (2) coming to a legal stop, the ball must be out of the player’s hand before the pivot foot is raised off the floor.
You would be stretching the bounds of everyone's patience if you called that a travel. Even the criteria for ''strictly speaking'' aren't quite there: it doesn't look to me like his right foot comes up until the ball is already in motion; it's the same reason how you can legally dribble the ball once and take 50 steps before dribbling again as long as you don't gather the ball in between.
If you called this a travel, even if I were being generous and saying you were technically right (which, again, I don't know if you are), you'd have to call so much stuff travelling that it would make the game unplayable. It's kind of like palming rules. Like yes, if you call them precisely to the letter, a ton of players for the last 30 years have palmed regularly: but it's so regularly that just casual dribbling that doesn't even gain any advantage would have to be called as well, to the point that everyone would have 20 turnovers a game from palming violations and it would be impossible to watch, play, or officiate.
:rolleyes:
Kind of crazy opponents havent figured out the hard jab right attack left Zion move yet. Dude is unstoppable.