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Originally posted by BobW
My nominee is the "legal" jump stop.
It is a travel in the base case, codified into legitimacy for some reason (maybe someone knows?) .... when you add in what higher level players (NBA and DI) are allowed to get away with (stepping after the stop, non-simultaneous landings), it makes for a lot of headaches at all levels.
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Although I agree with you, Bob, that the jump stop should not be legal (as I've written a few times), it's not a travel "in the base case". Traveling is a result of illegal movements of the pivot foot. And when a player receives the ball while airborne, the pivot foot is not established until the second foot touches the ground. So when the player lands on one foot, s/he hasn't yet established either foot as the pivot. So it's not a violation to lift and then return that foot (since it's not yet the pivot foot) to the floor.
I don't like the result, but it's legal b/c of how the pivot rule is written.