help w/traveling interpretation

[jritchie]

Agree that if you jump up in the air to pass or shoot and change your mind and put the ball down on the ground to start a dribble it's a violation! I was just wondering what this rule was preventing??? why do they want this to be a violation? I know it has been a rule forever, but me being bored was just trying to think of why they would not allow someone to either jump up to shoot, pass, or start a dribble! I mean that would be a good fake I guess, if I was to jump and fake the shot and then take off and dribble instead, maybe they don't think it's good for the game to allow such a fake like that, I don't know!!