[Back In The Saddle]

Re: 4-44

Maybe I don't understand your question? The traveling rule is defined in terms of the player's pivot foot. Having a pivot foot implies that the player is stopped. Not still, or motionless, but he is unable to move beyond the reach of his pivot foot. Consider the usage of "stop" as in "stop ball!", a common coaching command meaning to force the dribbler pick up his dribble during a fast break. When properly executed, the dribbler can no longer make direct progress toward the basket. He has been stopped.

4-44-2, in particular, contrasts stopping, and the optional and additional "step" of establishing a pivot foot, with moving or dribbling. So I take "stopped" to mean that the player is in one of the following positions: stationary with both feet on the floor, stationary with one foot on the floor and one in the air, pivoting with one foot on the floor, or both feet in the air and must pass/shoot/request timeout before returning to the ground. Moving would then be any other movement not allowed by 4-44. Such movements would include running, jumping, skipping, hopping (okay, I'm getting silly), cutting, back peddling, etc. without the ball, or similar movement with the ball while dribbling. In such movements, the player is unrestrained (as far as allowed by other rules, at least).