[hoopguy]

I have been watching a lot of D1 mens basketball and it is driving me crazy how the spin move travel is never called in any of the games I have watched. I have a really simple fool proof way of seeing this travel.

If the ball handler picks up his drible facing the basket and spins around so that he is facing the basket and jumps off two feet then it is a travel. This is impossible to do without travel. The players do this so fast it is difficult to realize the pivot foot has been lifted and placed back down again but it has. Picture the ball handler when he picks up his dribble, the inside foot toward the basket is his pivot foot. When he spins and then jumps off two feet, the inside foot becomes the outside foot as he jumps off two feet. It is a travel. In real time, you just need to realize that if the ball handler picks up his dribble facing the baset and spins around and jumps off two feet then it is a travel. Watch how many times this occurs in a D1 mens game!! I really have a problem when a travel occurs on a scoring move and is not called. This is a game changing play when it is not called by the rule.

Another pet peeve travel that occurs less often is on the inside pass where the big player gets an inside pass and needs to jump toward the baskent and then jump up and dunk the ball. An obvious travel that never gets called in D1 mens.

In the women's D1 game, there has been an emphasis on the spin move travel and it is rarely done without being whistled as a travel.