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Originally posted by rulesmaven
The question is whether his dribble ended before his left foot cleared the ground...
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Right! When was the ball held? If there was a travel at this point in the play, it shouldn't have been called at this point in the game, since it hasn't been called in the last six weeks.
If there was a travel at all, (and I defer to Dan's infinitely more authoritative opinion that there wasn't) it would have been on the spin move before the dribble. But the whistle didn't come till the ball had left the hands on the shot, so that would be really, really late.
I think that either the ref had been working his kid's soccer game earlier in the week and he was holding his travel call to see if there was an advantage, or he did as Tony (whose authority I also defer to) suggested and anticipated the call. In other words, he blew it.