Thread: Hop Step???????
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Old Thu Oct 23, 2003, 10:17pm
JeffTheRef JeffTheRef is offline
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To analyze any and all of this, I suggest

you pay carefullest attention to WHEN THE PLAYER PICKS UP THE BALL. That determines exactly what subsequent moves are possible.

Just for one example, the most common, most egregious violation of the jump stop off the dribble is picking the ball up 'too soon' - that is, on the back foot, then striding onto the front foot, then leaping on to two feet. Then, for the hat trick, players may then pivot, raise their pivot foot and step towards the basket, and shoot, or pass. Might as well not have any dribble rules at all. Everyone just run around like chickens with heads cut off . . . this particular violation actually was pioneered in this metropolitan area by a particular player!
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