Fun With A Spin Move …

[JRutledge]

I am going to say something that might be controversial for some people.

Spin moves 9 times out of 10 are travels. They are travels because if the dribble is stopped, not very often that the pivot foot is not lifted and put back down. See this so much on video and this is to me a travel as well. But hard to call because they are spinning away or towards the official and you see the end of it or the beginning and can be hard to call. But spin moves like this are rarely done legally.

Peace

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I am going to say something that might be controversial for some people.

Spin moves 9 times out of 10 are travels. They are travels because if the dribble is stopped, not very often that the pivot foot is not lifted and put back down. See this so much on video and this is to me a travel as well. But hard to call because they are spinning away or towards the official and you see the end of it or the beginning and can be hard to call. But spin moves like this are rarely done legally.

Peace

Agree. If the foot that is down when the ball is picked up is moved, it is a travel. In this case, and many, the foot on which they spin is the final plant foot for the shot (in a new location) which makes it a travel.

If the foot they're spinning on ends up somewhere else, it is 99%+ odds it is a travel. On a fumble of he ball is the exception. It is 100% impossible to spin the ball from one side of your body to the other without ending the dribble....the ball has come to rest in the hand in doing so.

[Zoochy]

This is a travel and as Jeff commented, most spin moves ARE a travel violation. I am tired of being 'That Guy' who calls the violation. Officials comment back to me with 'Let is go' or 'it's an athletic move'.
To me, Traveling Violations are harder to call. So many things going on. Thus we tend to call a violation when there is not one. Or as in this video, not call a violation when it does occur. I have to be close to 100% sure before I apply this penalty.