Two More "Pet Peeve" Travels

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The first one: The "Bunny Hop" before the 3-point shot as described in the two posts below. This is virtually never called in varsity games in Central Ohio.

Originally Posted by doubleringer

My pet peeve is the travel on 3 point shots that is waaaayyy to often passed on. I was very glad to see it included in the women's points of emphasis this season. By letting shooters set their feet, we are giving the offense a huge advantage. Sorry a little off topic, but it is my pet peeve travel.

Originally Posted by fiasco

Agreed. This is so prevalent in our area, especially among the girls.

I had a boys JV game a couple of months ago where I called about 5 travels on the same kid for catching the ball on both feet, making a tiny little hop to set himself and then shooting the ball. He was going nuts by the fifth whistle...

The second one: is the "Step into an ill-timed jump stop." I think that this one is called incorrectly just about as often as it is called correctly.

Currently, the rules indicate that a player can jump off of one foot and simultaneously land on both feet (jump stop) -- which from a physics standpoint does not actually happen as one foot will come down at least slightly before the other. However, if a player is dribbling, picks up his dribble, lands on his left foot and then lands with his right foot landing just slightly before the left foot (but, discernably so), the player is guilty of a travel. These two situations are not always consistently called properly, either. The challenge with these two calls is determining the proximity of the two feet landing -- knowing that they are not actually landing simultaneously.

In each of these situations, the feet can end up in the same position (there are two cases of legal plays in the casebook 4.44.2.A a and 4.44.2.A b which describe the feet landing parallel and the feet landing with one in front of the other). In other words, the feet end up taking off and landing the same number of times. The timing of the landing on the jump stop feet determine the travel.