Lifting pivot foot

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Originally Posted by eg-italy

Lifting the pivot foot is never a violation;

Wrong.

Originally Posted by eg-italy

That's correct; but the violation is not in lifting the pivot foot, it's starting the dribble after having lifted the pivot foot.

Lifting the pivot foot and then starting a dribble is a traveling violation.

Traveling is moving the pivot foot outside prescribed limits.

The pivot foot may not be lifted before the ball is released, to start a dribble.

Therefore, lifting the pivot foot in this situation is the violation. It simply isn't called until the dribble is released.

Actually, there is a case under FIBA rules when lifting a foot causes a violation (assuming the player is not dribbling): if one foot is in the frontcourt and the other is in the backcourt, lifting the foot in the frontcourt is an "over and back" violation (returning the ball in the backcourt). However it's impossible that the foot in the frontcourt is pivot (it might become pivot upon lifting the other one).

So in FEEBLE rules, a player who is straddling the division line is in the FC?

If a player ends his dribble with his right foot in the FC and then makes his final step with his left foot in the BC, the right foot is not the pivot?

I don't think you know what you're talking about.