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Old Wed Jun 24, 2015, 06:04pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef View Post

Never seen "improving his position" in the rule book.
translation: "attempt to get up or stand"

"Traveling is moving a foot or feet in any direction in excess of prescribed limits while holding the ball."

In the case of traveling rule, the legal actions are enumerated and all other foot movement is illegal. I don't see any place that says a player can move from two knees to one knee and a foot. Therefore, by rule, it is traveling when that foot touched the floor, but not with just lifting the knee.
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