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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by ysong
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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by ysong
So, after catching the ball in mid air, a player can land with one foot and jump right off it, then land on the other foot and jump off it again to shoot. you believe it is perfectly legal. Do I understand you correctly?
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You understand me perfectly. What you describe is a perfectly legal lay-up.
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Thanks, Chuck.
Please don't change your mind when you find out you are up against Camron Rust and Jurassic Referree (and maybe rainmaker).
BTW, when I said "too often (if not always) the runing layups are done by jump-jump.", I was talking about the regular layups that you just vindicated, not "jump stops".
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I agree with Chuck. The player landed on the "red" foot first. That's now his pivot foot. He then lifted that foot to jump onto his other "green"(non-pivot) foot, and then jumped off the non-pivot (green) foot and shot before the pivot (red) foot hit the floor again.
That's perfectly legal. The player established a pivot foot(red), jumped off of that pivot foot and shot before the pivot foot hit the floor again.
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You mean to tell me that if a player, after having caught the ball by the basket, first lands on the "red" foot right, jumps 2-3 feet straight up (as if to shoot but realizes B will block it), then lands in essentially the same spot on the "green" foot, you're going to allow it?
The traveling rule lists what is permitted when a player first lands on one foot:
Step to other foot
Jump to both feet simultaneously
I don't see jump to one foot. Since it is listing what is allowed, anything else is not allowed.
If they're "stepping" as in a layup and both feet are momentarily off the ground, that is fine, but a step is not the same as a jump.