Rules of Pivoting

[deecee]

if a player jumps with the ball and lands without shoointg, passing or a defender knocking the ball lose are gaining simultaneous possesion of the ball what would you call -- up and down or travel -- he essentially jumped and didn't get rid of the ball before he landed -- basic travel call.

In most games i go by a simple rule -- no matter how smooth the play went, unless the guy with the ball is just an amazing athlete, if he covers so much ground where i have to double take and ask myself is that possible -- there is a 99% chance it was a travel. Most players young and old just dont have the footwork to go about 15 - 20 feet off one dribble or a spinmove. or once he picks up his dribble take into account which foot is on the floor when he does that and if that foot gets picked up he better not have the ball when it gets put back down. The only time I would overlook that half step if the player is attacking the basket and he doesn't use that extra half step to gain an advantage by going around somebody -- but if hes going in a straight line to the basket i let it go.

then again im usually rather liberal with my travels -- it has to be clearly advantage gained or just a ridculously obvious travel for me to call it --

Which after i saw that video where the guy switched pivot and travelled again -- i would not have called that -- his defender gave him ample space to pivot and wasnt guarding him to tight so why interupt the game where the ball handler didnt get an advantage -- also he immediatly attacked the basket and did travel slightly again -- but it looked like a good matchup between defender and offender so let them play -- make the defense play defense and reward them. but then again when it comes to travelling im very liberal.