Duke @ North Carolina 3 Plays (Video)

[Raymond]

1) Block

2) PC

3) No travel and no foul

4) Illegal jump stop (that no one is going to call) and a foul

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

4) Illegal jump stop (that no one is going to call) and a foul

That's a good one. I never noticed till you mentioned it. These videos are really helpful to see things that I wouldn't always pick up. Glad you mentioned this.

[ballgame99]

1. traveled twice on initial possession/take off. skipped with right foot (pivot foot), then lifted pivot foot before dribbling. then I have a block with the defender coming forward.

2. looks like an easy PC

3. left foot is pivot so no travel, got him on the arm.

4. jump stop is barely illegal on slow mo, but not calling it live, got him on the arm.

[griblets]

Originally Posted by ballgame99

3. left foot is pivot so no travel, got him on the arm.

Pause at the 0:25 second mark of the video. Right foot is pivot while left is still off the floor. On the spin, right/pivot is picked up, then back down before shot or foul.

This is a travel I've been trying to better identify this season.

[deecee]

All good calls. I don't see an illegal jump stop on the last one, it looks good.

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by deecee

All good calls. I don't see an illegal jump stop on the last one, it looks good.

The feet don't come down simultaneously.

[deecee]

Originally Posted by Smitty

The feet don't come down simultaneously.

I don't know what your expectation is for simultaneously because ALL jump stops would be travels. Calling this not simultaneous is a nit that I'm never going to pick.

What's the fascination with travel calls? Out of all the hero calls a hero travel call is the rarest of them all, and usually involves a clear cut travel (like a switch of the pivot foot while a player keeps pivoting). I used to call a lot of travels but after watching guys that were in positions that I wanted to be in NOT call as many I noticed a pattern. In talking with them and from instruction I have come to accept that picking NITS with travels is not what is expected, nor does it make one a great official.

This rule is not 100% but it does cover 98-99% of real time application for me. I make sure I get the ones that Ray Charles in the last row would call. I try my best to call the ones that give a clear advantage to the offensive player and ARE obvious, and the rest I'm ok missing. Because I bet that we get more travels called incorrect than we do when we don't put air in the whistle.

By the letter of the law I'm sure our HS or even college games have way more travels that go uncalled but I just don't focus as much on those calls as I do with everything else I have to. I stick to calling the obvious and if I have to justify my call with a "well he picked up his dribble a hair before he lifted his XYZ foot off the ground and then a lace of his pivot returned to the ground so I have a travel" I'm focusing on all the wrong things.

Simultaneous - eh close enough. I can also tell you that the more athletic the players the tougher it is to pick up their pivot foot as they are so darn quick. For the love of me I don't want to take a possession away from a team on a borderline guess or 50/50 call.