NBA Travel

[Junker]

Well said M&M. The NBA is purely entertainment to me. It's fun to see the athletic plays they make, but it's really not the sport of basketball to me. This has nothing to do with the officials, like all of us, they call the game like their assignors want them to. One of my favorite examples of the good old NBA advantage/disadvantage was a cut to commercial when Hakeem was playing. The announcer says that you, "Just can't stop the dream shake." and the clip shows Hakeem pivot on his right foot, then pivot on his left foot, and amazingly he was able to get away from his defender for an easy lay in. The NBA is FAAAAANNNNTASTIC!

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Junker

This has nothing to do with the officials, like all of us, they call the game like their assignors want them to.

I agree, my complaint is with Ronnie Nunn and David Stern.

Shaq complains about the all the contact he has to endure but if the NBA would enforce its traveling rules and displacement rules against him then defenders wouldn't feel the need to pound on him to play defense.

[Raymond]

Tonight is a perfect example of entertainment over rules. I love Lebron James, I think he'll have 2-3 rings before he retires but come on, could he have made that great play to win the game without the benefit of 4-steps???

It was an obvious, no doubt about it travel. Obviously the NBA edict is not to call traveling in those situations.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Tonight is a perfect example of entertainment over rules. I love Lebron James, I think he'll have 2-3 rings before he retires but come on, could he have made that great play to win the game without the benefit of 4-steps???

It was an obvious, no doubt about it travel. Obviously the NBA edict is not to call traveling in those situations.

Geeze, I just went to ESPN to take a look at it; I thought it couldn't really be that bad. I was wrong. He did a jump stop- and then he just kept a-walking until he got open.

Unbelievable......

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Geeze, I just went to ESPN to take a look at it; I thought it couldn't really be that bad. I was wrong.

I only saw it once on SportsCenter, but it didn't strike me as all that bad. He pivoted after the jump stop, but that's legal in the NBA. I'll take your word for it, tho.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

I only saw it once on SportsCenter, but it didn't strike me as all that bad. He pivoted after the jump stop, but that's legal in the NBA. I'll take your word for it, tho.

Chuck,

You may want to take another look at the replay. He jumped stopped (debatable, just looked like 2 steps to me), then after pump faking the defender out of position, he took 2 full steps towards the basket, then jumped off 2 feet.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

I only saw it once on SportsCenter, but it didn't strike me as all that bad. He pivoted after the jump stop, but that's legal in the NBA. I'll take your word for it, tho.

Grin....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...042901503.html

Any resemblance between what's in the rules and what's actually called is strictly coincidental.

NBA basketball- Faaaaaaaantastic.......and getting more like pro wrestling every day.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

I only saw it once on SportsCenter, but it didn't strike me as all that bad. He pivoted after the jump stop, but that's legal in the NBA.

Brought back from the dead because of something in this morning's NY Post.....

From Peter Vecsey's column- citing NBA Director of Official, Ronnie Nunn, on this play- "Nunn unhesitatingly concedes James got away with two violations, a walk and an up-and-down, on his game-winning drive in game 3"

http://www.nypost.com/sports/65573.htm

Only two?

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

"Nunn unhesitatingly concedes James got away with two violations, a walk and an up-and-down, on his game-winning drive in game 3"

First of all, why do you keep quoting me?!?! I already admitted that I only saw it once and that I take your word (and Ronnie's) that it was, in fact, a travel.

But second of all, "We did a lot of things to win the game," the Wizards coach said after practice yesterday. "And because a travel wasn't called, you don't win the game." Come on. Don't we always say that one call doesn't cost the game? Wasn't there a missed FT in there somewhere, or a turnover, or a missed defensive switch? Maybe that was why they lost the game.

Third of all, I don't like Vecsey on TV or in print.