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Originally posted by Tim C
Folks, officials do not call enough travel violations. Professional basketball lets them walk, so now colleges let them walk, and now we at the HS level have followed suit. Let's just work harder at calling closer to the rules as written.
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I think that this is very true. I'm kinda in between on this issue. I think that it is okay to call a travel without being able to demonstrate what the offender did. (you see, coach, he moved his left foot 4" and then he moved his right foot at least 6") A lot of times this is really a bang-bang play, when a player explodes with a quick first step. If his feet were both a blur to you before he put the ball on the floor, chances are it was a travel, but if his feet are that quick, chances are his hands are quick, too, so if you have
"reasonable doubt," let it go.