The thread below about travelling on the turn-around jumpshot prompts me to ask a related question: What about the dribbler who "gathers up" the ball too soon? I actually got nailed for calling this, by an evaluator who said "the cross-over dribble isn't always illegal." He didn't even see the extra step by the dribbler.

This player, in warm-ups, had the fastest, smoothest, most realiable dribble-drive-lay-up I've ever seen anywhere. And he pulled it off plenty in the game, too, but when there was a defender in the key, he lost some confidence and would scoop up the ball too soon, in effect taking an extra step. I called it three times in the first half. He asked very nicely about it at half-time, and didn't do it in the second half. I was impressed, and a little pleased with myself, but my partner thought I was seeing the play wrong and said he wouldn't have called it a travel. I see it a lot in boys and I wonder how I should be calling it. No one else seems too worried about it.

You go girl!
 

I'm not sure what you saw but if he stepped with his pivot foot, he traveled!

If you could clearly determine that the player HAD indeed ended the dribble, then took that extra step, good call!

I'm VERY liberal with travel & dribbling. I MAKE SURE that the dribble has ended before I whistle any end-of-dribble travels.

Ditto INDY
 

This is especially true at the lower skill level games.

Agree with Indy