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Thoughts?

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I have a handcheck long before anything else.

Peace

Agreed. Stayed hand should have been call.

If you don't want to get the HC, then get the PC

I was to distracted by his feet moving all over the place

Uh oh, nitpicker alert.;) I guess you never got the memo about which obvious travels to overlook in NCAA M.

Though I will say live I didn't notice. So it wasn't THAT obvious. A travel nonetheless.

To caveat my comment...I wouldn't have called the travel because the defender was probably affecting his balance a little bit with the hand check :D. I wouldn't have called the hand check unless I had been calling it earlier in the game (don't have that knowledge for this game)

First a travel, then a hand check and finally Player Control foul. Multiple choice.

New guy question on a slight tangent that was first brought up by someone else:

In a NHFS (or IAABO) game rather than NCAAM, do you call that travel or overlook it there as well?

It would depend on what had been allowed/disallowed to that point by you and your partner(s), imo.

Apparently as long as you're within the confines of the visitor's logo, dribbling is optional.

Player slides his pivot more than the breadth of the base of the logo before releasing for the dribble.

How obvious does it need to be anymore?

Is this something that honestly would be allowed regularly in a game though at a high school level? In the NBA I would expect it, to a lesser degree NCAA, but I would have thought this would be pretty close to automatic in HS games - it look like he shuffles backwards approximately 4 feet.

That pivot foot moved over 3' before the ball is released. If the travel is missed, then I agree with bob.

Will Clougherty ding this guy and say he was 0 - 3 on this play....

Sorry I gotta be a nit picker as well, but doesn't our bretheren give the "get up" mechanic to the kid on the ground ????

This would be a travel in any game I work, but that's just me. If I happened to miss the travel, I would hope I would get the hand check or the PC.

Hands, hands, hands. His hand is on the offensive player and it never leaves. A call would clean up the mess that follows.

+1

In this order here is what I have

1. Travel
2. Hand check
3. a flop. I think there is some embellishment on the part of the defender.

Travel then PC.

Just curious...Why would you have the travel BEFORE the hand check? Seems like that hand is on the bicep/shoulder of the ball handler, and exerting pressure from the looks of it, well before he steps back to get away from the contact.

For the record there are more hand checking calls in NCAA and NBA (even more in the NBA) than I see in HS games. I also would not really care what my partner has been calling either as I would have a foul regardless if the continuous hand made the defender do something they would not have done.

And under NCAA guidelines, it is illegal to have a continuous hand on a ball handler. So the travel should not be called IMO.

Peace

The question is whether the hand contact caused the travel, therefore resulting in a hand check foul. I could easily go with that.

The hand check did not cause the travel, in my opinion, but it doesn't have to to be a foul.

It did not CAUSE the travel in the sense that the defender did not push the ball handler backward. But did it CAUSE the travel in the sense that in order to start his move to the basket the ball handler had to step backward to get away from the illegal contact?

I just didn't understand why the previous poster would put the travel call ahead of the hand check call in his prioritized list of calls.

I suppose the argument could be made that there was no hand check foul to call. (minimal contact, no advantage gained, etc.) I don't see how anyone could say there was no travel.

That is an easy obvious travel. Also when the obvious hand check wasn't called, no way he was calling the obvious push off

This. A long, 3-second handcheck that actually pushes the offensive player back a bit.

But if the HC doesn't happen, then hell yes that's a PC.

So we don't think the travel was CAUSED by the HC? I do.

Literally LOL at this.

I don't see how anyone could say there was no advantage gained by a continuous push that forced the dribbler to travel.

The NCAA rule book when it comes to contact on the dribbler...
 

Appendix III (edited to deal with this scenario)

Which is a long way of saying an actual push isn't necessary. If a defender leaves a hand on it's assumed (s)he is either pushing or holding.

I can see the hand check not getting called.

The travel should be called. Allowing that footwork without a call is blasphemy.

As far as the foul goes, that's definitely a PC foul.