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Originally posted by BktBallRef
What you describe as a gallop is the dribbler ending the dribble, stepping and establishing a pivot, stepping with the non-pivot and lifting the pivot, jumping off the non-pivot. Legal play.
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The gallop I'm refering to is when a player dribble drives to the hoop, picks up the dribble, and then, takes his/her two steps, but the two steps are very close together, one right after the other, both feet then leave the court, a gallop. Technically, this is it, no more steps, either shoot or pass. But more and more I see moves that add an additional jump after both feet come back down, or even a second gallop after the first. Certainly the pros, which I realize play under a different set of written and unwritten rules, do these moves all the time and worst. But these moves naturely trickle down to the college, high school, and lower levels.
Traveling calls for these actions, are rare at the upper levels, and subsequently, cause a lot of confusion at the lower levels. These "galloping plus" moves seem to be less and less a violation under NFHS, for example.
EG