Jump Stop instruction for refs

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

HEY!!! Dr. Naismith himself showed me that move!

Mark, we know you're not being honest here.

Everyone knows the NCAA made this rule change back in the late 90's to accomodate Jon Diebler. He was entering the big-time 10 and under AAU league sponsored by Nike (they needed some way of show-casing this young man's talent beyond the YMCA) that was using NCAA rules, and he had this move that was incredible. It brought tears to your eyes to see an 8 year old doing it, quite frankly.

Anyway, knowing that if they didn't make a rule change to allow this move Mr. Diebler would skip college and go straight for the NBA, where traveling is never called, the NCAA made the change early enough for their officials to get a grasp of this move.

The rest, as they say, is his(her)tory.