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Thanks JRutledge,
The philosophy that you outline is no doubt the one adopted by most officials today (call the OMG, everyone saw that, obvious travel call). But that is precisely my point: that philosophy is doing serious damage to the beauty of the game of BB because offensive players can such an advantage. Even on the specific plays where they travel and don't gain an advantage, it still gives them more leeway/freedom on what they can do - which ultimately puts the defense in a nearly impossible position, which leads to the absurd number of foul calls (about 1 per minute at all levels - is there any other sport that has that ridiculous ratio: can you imagine a footbal game with 50 penalties - how fun would that be to watch or play or officiate).
So it become a vicious cycle. We dont call travels; therefore we have to call more fouls. Then, since we are already blowing the whistle all the time for fouls, we don't want to interrupt the game with "ticky tack" travel calls. But if the travel rule were enforced, then we would not have to call all the fouls.
One other thought, per my earlier comments, the violation in which the players picks up the pivot foot before releasing the ball for a dribble is NOT one of those "did that just happen" plays. It is very easy to see if you simply pay attention and concentrate.
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