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Originally Posted by Multiple Sports
Starman,
That is perfect logic....on a lay up, you establish a pivot foot and push off the ground on your non pivot foot. Because he moves in a funky direction we think it may be a walk...this a great and legal move....
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This, sadly, is the kind of play that may get called a travel by many low level (i.e., untrained or poorly trained) referees because it looks funny and young kids often don't know how to use a pivot foot. (As an 8th grader, my son worked on using his pivot effectively, and as a big guy could cover some space on a legal pivot in the post to get past a defender -- but he got called incorrectly [in my completely unbiased opinion!
] for travelling several times by refs that I suspect weren't actually watching his footwork, but the distance he covered. At higher levels, the refs are properly focussed on the actual footwork.)