Michigan State-Duke clip(s)

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Did it ever occur to you the officials did not feel these are travels?

Fair enough but if that's the case, based on the rule book, it would be nice to know why. If they just plain old missed them then hey, that's the way life goes. We all do but I'm pretty sure we all try not to.

Originally Posted by JRutledge

When people stop acting like every missed travel has a hightened tragedy to every other missed violation in the game. Maybe when that happens I will stop making this point. But I do not see anyone going nuts over 3 seconds, offensive post play, or players running out of bounds (all penalize the defense), but somehow the travel is the conspiracy?

JRut, I think we as a group analyze everything critically on this board not just travels. It just happens to be the violation that's called - and possibly seen - most often other than a ball going OOB. It's not some sort of tragedy or conspiracy. There are just some plays where we wonder how it was missed.

I'm just baffled why the two travel discussions - this and the Syracuse/Indiana clip - have become so argumentative. Either the players did or they didn't. Some plays may have more debate than others based on camera angles but to add on to what BayState said in the other thread the goal of posting these is to get better.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by JetMetFan

Fair enough but if that's the case, based on the rule book, it would be nice to know why. If they just plain old missed them then hey, that's the way life goes. We all do but I'm pretty sure we all try not to.



JRut, I think we as a group analyze everything critically on this board not just travels. It just happens to be the violation that's called - and possibly seen - most often other than a ball going OOB. It's not some sort of tragedy or conspiracy. There are just some plays where we wonder how it was missed.

I'm just baffled why the two travel discussions - this and the Syracuse/Indiana clip - have become so argumentative. Either the players did or they didn't. Some plays may have more debate than others based on camera angles but to add on to what BayState said in the other thread the goal of posting these is to get better.

All basketball plays can be up for debate. We debate block-charge plays (which have clear rules), we debate Flagrant/Intentional Fouls, not sure why we cannot debate travels. There are rules that apply in those cases too. It seems simple to me, but I guess to others they know best.

Peace