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Old Fri Apr 28, 2000, 01:07pm
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Wait a moment. I am something of a novice here, but I don't think that is a travel. In basketball, you are allowed to pivot on one foot (keeping it in contact with the ground and not dragging it), and move the opposing foot as many times as desired. If, however, the player elects to pick up the pivot foot, he may not place again down without a traveling violation. This makes two manuevers legal:

Jump shot
Layup

In both cases, a player has lifted his pivot foot after establishing it. In either case, if the player were to replace his pivot foot, he would be traveling. In other words, the standard for traveling is not the act of lifting the pivot foot, but replacing it.

Using that logic, a player attempting the often cited series of moves cited in this thread of stradling the 3 point line and shooting off his non-pivot foot is doing nothing more than a layup style series of steps from 22 feet from the goal.

Could this be why the officials at high levels aren't calling it?

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