Travel on Hail Mary

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by jump stop

Best way to view this is to enlarge screen ,press pause, put mouse arrow on red line and click on :05-07 seconds and you can slowly watch play.

Now if we have to do this to make call , should you really be calling a travel??
You are totally going by the "look " when making this call.
My personal belief is the top rated officials would never call this a travel.

Listen up whippersnapper.

I am 61 years old and this is my 42nd year as a basketball official. During those 42 years I officiated women's college basketball for 34 years (I was the first male to officiate women's college basketball in Florida and one of the first in the Southeast USA; including 18 Div. I playoff games and 20 jr. college playoff games); I officiated men's college basketball for fifteen years; and was a USA Basketball Referee for fifteen years). I have officiated over forty AAU and YBOA Boys' and Girls' National Championship Tournaments including three YBOA Girls' National Championship Games. I have officiated the Ohio Special Olympics Final Four for over twenty straight years and was chosen to officiate in the Special Olympics World Summer Games in 1999. I have been a rules interpreter, instructional chairman, and have served on IAABO National Committees and been a staffer at IAABO Camps.

Any competent basketball official will call that traveling because it was traveling. The first time I watched the play I watched in full size and I called it traveling the first time I saw it. I didn't call it by "feel", I called it because W1 traveled as defined in the rules, and I mean NFHS, NCAA, FIBA, and NBA/WNBA rules; try reading them sometime.

MTD, Sr.


P.S. MTD, Jr., called it traveling too, the first time he saw it and this is only his sixth year of officiating.