travel at end of GT/Kansas

[mick]

Originally posted by thadbrown
Any thoughts about the travel call at the end of KU/GT. I saw it live and haven't been able to see a replay yet, but I'm not sure where the travel call came from. The player was falling down backwards, but appeared to dribble the ball on the way down. Did anyone else see this and if so why was a travel called?

Coulda been a travel, but I think the official got lucky when the dribbler sat. (I believe the whistle went off before the dribbler hit the floor, although replay could prove that thought to be incorrect).

If I were a mind reader, I would say the dribbler caused an illegal screen per case book, but the official thought that there was no way he would be able to explain a TC to National TV, the fans, or the coaches. So, when the dribbler sat, he thought, "I'm going with that!"

Travels can often be used as not-too-hard-to-explain "escape mechanisms" from iffy calls. Few people question a travel with much more than a, "Huh?"

mick