NC State vs Villanova (Video 2/2)

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by A Pennsylvania Coach

Please re-evaluate your thinking on this. Just because no one had traveled in the first 37 minutes, you are going to let a player get away with breaking a basic rule, gaining an unfair advantage that leads to an easy bucket late in a close game?

Well hold on, that's not what I implied. I meant there had been several travels either passed on or not seen. For the sake of consistency (which I know you, as a coach, desire), I have to take this into consideration.

If it's the first time I see it or we've made a point of calling it the whole game, than yes, absolutely I have a travel here. And it was a travel; that I'm not denying.

[A Pennsylvania Coach]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

Well hold on, that's not what I implied. I meant there had been several travels either passed on or not seen. For the sake of consistency (which I know you, as a coach, desire), I have to take this into consideration.

If it's the first time I see it or we've made a point of calling it the whole game, than yes, absolutely I have a travel here. And it was a travel; that I'm not denying.

I don't think any good official passeson many, if any, travels he or she sees (or I should say, recognizes as a travel.)

Also BTW, while I was a high school coach for 11 years, I've now been officiating for 8. I haven't posted here much in the last couple years so I imagine many who post now don't know that when I started reading and posting here, I was still coaching.

[MechanicGuy]

Originally Posted by A Pennsylvania Coach

I don't think any good official passeson many, if any, travels he or she sees (or I should say, recognizes as a travel.)

I have to disagree with this.

There HAS to have been a directive to NCAA officials regarding traveling. There are at least marginal travels on nearly every possession, particularly from players catching the ball going away from their basket. They can damn near do whatever they want to square themselves up.

And we may as well adopt the NBA's "2 step" rule because there are probably 10 plays a game that to me, are clear travels (and replays back me up), that are ignored. They aren't even commented on by most fans/announcers because they're so used to NBA-level moves. Spin moves to the basket, "Euro-steps", tucking the ball, etc. None of it gets called.

I HOPE that this isn't just officials being oblivious to what I consider quite obvious travels.

[APG]

[Pantherdreams]

Originally Posted by MechanicGuy

I have to disagree with this.

There HAS to have been a directive to NCAA officials regarding traveling. There are at least marginal travels on nearly every possession, particularly from players catching the ball going away from their basket. They can damn near do whatever they want to square themselves up.

And we may as well adopt the NBA's "2 step" rule because there are probably 10 plays a game that to me, are clear travels (and replays back me up), that are ignored. They aren't even commented on by most fans/announcers because they're so used to NBA-level moves. Spin moves to the basket, "Euro-steps", tucking the ball, etc. None of it gets called.

I HOPE that this isn't just officials being oblivious to what I consider quite obvious travels.

I don't know if its a directive or not. BUT I agree that on every possession there is footwork that is well beyond questionable. Particularly on take offs, and a lot of plays in transition.

Now the pace of the game I can see missing at times because you are trying to get angles, uncertain of gather etc. But guys changing pivot feet or lifting their back foot before the ball is out with someone watching that competitive 1 on 1 matchup come on. If footwork is being missed because guys are too worried about watching the contact then by all means get rid of the contact. But don't allow travels to occur because of contact violations are not supposed to be advantage disadvantage.