Quick feet and travel violation

[deecee]

Originally Posted by gojeremy

1st year official looking for advice again. Hard to describe but a player on top of the key makes a drive to the basket. It seems as though the feet start moving right as or just before the dribble is initiated. It looks like a travel but it happens so fast I'm not always positive. I see this a lot and I'm never sure what to call. I hope everyone understands what I'm trying to describe.

General rule of thumb is don't guess on travels. If you are not sure don't blow the whistle. I think many times officials call way to many marginal travel/no travel calls and focus so much on that that they miss many other things.

[Ref16]

Regarding tracking the pivot foot, one of the other guys who works college ball along with a solid high school schedule in my association gave this advice: He said that each time a player has the ball that he will subtly tap his leg over and over on whichever side the pivot foot is to help him correctly identify a walk. Not sure if anyone else does this or not...I know a few other guys that do in the association, however I have not ever personally tried this technique to keep up with the pivot foot.