innocent remark

[just another ref]

Originally posted by zebraman
2) Big "showboat steps?" I don't know what a showboat step is. Traveling is based on the pivot foot, not on steps.

Z [/B]

It has been my position ever since I first read the travel rule that a huge percentage of layups are actually travels.
Player picks up his dribble and takes 2 more steps which is certainly a travel. It was explained to me once that when a person is running both feet are off the floor a large percentage of the time, therefore if there is any doubt you kind of assume that both feet were off the ground when he picked up that dribble, thereby making that 2 step layup legal. (I never really bought that explanation, but it is just that if nobody else calls all of 'em travels, I guess that I shouldn't either.) It follows in my interpretation that the slower and more deliberate the steps in such a maneuver, the more obvious it is that at least one foot was on the floor when the dribble was ended and the easier it is to call such a play a travel. The "showboat" reference simply meant that this guy was moving rather slowly and took 2 big giant steps, strutted in if you will, and wanted to dunk but thought better of it at the last second.