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jking_94577 · #1 (**permalink**) Thu Apr 17, 2003, 02:27pm

Hawks, are you telling me you can stand and toss it to yourself without a violation? I thought that is traveling for sure. What is the difference between that and standing there with both feet on ground, then shoot an airball without jumping, and rebound with both feet still on ground? Is the difference that this is a try?

Hawks Coach · #2 (**permalink**) Thu Apr 17, 2003, 03:04pm

To travel, your feet must move. To dribble, the ball must strike the floor. If you stand in one place, you cannot by definition travel. If you bounce the ball repeatedly with two hands, you could double dribble, but if you toss it up in the air to yourself without moving, where is the travel violation? What in the travel rule would suggest this is a violation?

It doesn't need to be a try if your feet don't move. If you move both feet and you get the ball back after tossing it in the air, the toss better be a try or you have travelled.

jking_94577 · #3 (**permalink**) Thu Apr 17, 2003, 03:24pm

So there is no violation, if you shoot an airball then catch it if your feet have not moved at all?

Hawks Coach · #4 (**permalink**) Thu Apr 17, 2003, 04:12pm

Definitely no violation if feet do not move at all levels of play. And below the NBA level, if your airball is judged a try on goal rather than a pass to yourself, there is no violation even if your feet do move.

For the NBA, airball + feet moving = self-pass and therefore a travel

BktBallRef · #5 (**permalink**) Thu Apr 17, 2003, 05:20pm

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Originally posted by jking_94577
So there is no violation, if you shoot an airball then catch it if your feet have not moved at all?

It doesn't matter whether you move your feet or not. It's not traveling to rebound your own airball, unless you're playing in the NBA.