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Originally posted by ByTheBook
I was watching UWM play Detroit last night and thought I had witnessed an obvious traveling violation. We had recorded the game so we went back and watched it again and found that a friend thought otherwise. Here is the play.
Detroit player brings the ball up the court dribbling the ball and is currently walking the ball. As he nears and crosses half court he lets the ball bounce alongside him and with both hands calls out a play, after he calls out a play he does what can only be described as a sequence of hops(show boating). After this he returns to dribbling the ball and moves tries to drive past the defender.
Now I thought it was a traveling violation because he took at least six steps in the sequence of hops after dribbling and begins dribbling again. I am very confused as to how this could be anything other than a travel.
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Remember, a travel violation is essentially only: 1)lifting a pivot foot before starting a dribble, or 2)replacing a pivot foot before releasing the ball on a pass or shot. Now there are other conditions as to how a pivot foot is established, but the main similarity in all of them is the player must first be holding the ball. In your description, it sounds like the ball is bouncing next to the player, and he is not holding it. So, in this case, no violation. (Unless of course he's not Irish and he tries to dance a jig, but that's another type of violation entirely!)