Ask a Ref: Pivot Foot & Traveling (Video)

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

I see no part of the travel that allows for a player, while holding the ball, to legally jump and land aside from the 2-footed jump stop.

In the play presented, the player caught the ball while on the floor. It doesn't say whether it was on one foot or two feet.

If it was with both feet on the floor, there is no legal way for the player to jump and return to the floor. When the player jumps from both feet, one of the feet would be considered the pivot foot (think that is in a case play) and...

I read it as: catches ball with both feet on the floor. Lifts one foot, jumps / leaps off the other, lands on the first foot only, jumps / leaps off that first foot and shoots the ball while in the air.

Basically, a "really long lay up"

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I read it as: catches ball with both feet on the floor. Lifts one foot, jumps / leaps off the other, lands on the first foot only, jumps / leaps off that first foot and shoots the ball while in the air.

Basically, a "really long lay up"

That would be a travel per the rule I cited, if they jump. If they take a long step, legal.