Another travelling question

[rainmaker]

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.

[BktBallRef]

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

[Indy_Ref]

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.

[williebfree]

This is especially true at the lower skill level games.

[Peter Devana]

Agree with Indy