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Originally posted by refTN
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In this respect it is called just like HS, there has to be no determination of what foot is in advance of what foot. Like I said in an earlier post, the rules by the NBA just have very well wrote, explained, and thorough guidelines and the NFHS rulebook does not. I believe if the NFHS rulebook was wrote with this two count philosophy it would be easier for refs to discern what is and is not a travel. [/B][/QUOTE]That's completely wrong. There is very little in the NBA that is called like high school, and traveling sureashell isn't one of them. Hell, they don't even call traveling in the NBA by their
own freaking rules and guidelines. Patrick Ewing, for one, traveled on his patented little move across the middle his whole career, and he got away with it because he was,well,Patrick Ewing. The NBA may well have written guidelines but they sureashell don't follow their own written guidelines. There's absolutely no consistency that I can see when it comes to calling traveling.
The NBA is entertainment. High school is still about learning to do fundamentals legally. Iow, different philosophies for different rules. Most experienced high school officials don't have any problems at all with calling traveling consistently and properly.