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blindzebra

He regained possession, established his right foot as his pivot foot, pivoted, stepped with his left foot, lifted his right foot and shot.

That is 100% legal.

canuckrefguy

blindzebra wrote
He regained possession, established his right foot as his pivot foot, pivoted, stepped with his left foot, lifted his right foot and shot.

That is 100% legal.

THAT part I get.....my mistake was somehow thinking his foot came back down before the shot....

RookieDude

I'm at work tonight...all the guys are telling me Georgetown should not have won..."the announcers said the player traveled at the end of the game on the shot."

I went to CBS on demand (watched on computer)...they showed the play...the two talking heads said it was "CLEARLY" a travel, because the player lifted his pivot foot.

Do you think there will be a retraction by all these "know-it-alls" when they actually find out the rule?

johnsatchmo

Wow so now the CBS guys have switched saying he lifted his right foot half a milimeter and brought it down again before pivoting. Way to bail yourselves out guys. If they call that a travel then pretty much every single play is a travel.

Drizzle

Uh-oh, Billy Packer just said it wasn't a travel!

Now they're showing him lifting his pivot foot during the pivot and returning it to the floor. Still doesn't excuse that they were calling it a travel on the lifting of the pivot foot for the shot.

CJN

canuckrefguy wrote
THAT part I get.....my mistake was somehow thinking his foot came back down before the shot....

now kellog is saying it was a travel because green lifted his pivot foot as he was pivoting. is anyone buying this explanation?

shave-tail

Just watched this in slow motion during the USC/UNC game. After he retained control of the ball. His right foot is clearly the pivot. During his move to the left his right foot is lifted (just slightly) and is placed on the floor again. It was then raised again for the lay up to the basket. Travel.

I felt that the slight lift was caused by a knee and push from behind.

Without slow motion this would have clearly been a very hard travel to see and call with number of players around.

Big2Cat

RookieDude wrote
I'm at work tonight...all the guys are telling me Georgetown should not have won..."the announcers said the player traveled at the end of the game on the shot."

I went to CBS on demand (watched on computer)...they showed the play...the two talking heads said it was "CLEARLY" a travel, because the player lifted his pivot foot.

Do you think there will be a retraction by all these "know-it-alls" when they actually find out the rule?

Nope. I just got off the phone with CBS sports and they are maintaining he lifted it twice and it was therefore a travel. I think they are calling that little slide the travel, even though Davis et al were all referring to him lifting his pivot foot off the floor to shoot.

MJT

Of course they do not say "we were wrong with what we first said, but it was still a travel," they just say it was a travel cuz of lifting it twice.

shave-tail

MJT wrote
Of course they do not say "we were wrong with what we first said, but it was still a travel," they just say it was a travel cuz of lifting it twice.

I couldn't agree more.....talk about the blind sow finding a acorn. The play looked odd....the anouncers scream travel....and in super slow motion there is a slight travel...caused in my opinion by a push from behind.

Johnny Ringo

This is a play that we see a lot in girls/women's basketball ... obviously, these announcers don't watch women's hoops very often.

WhistlesAndStripes

Johnny Ringo wrote
This is a play that we see a lot in girls/women's basketball ... obviously, these announcers don't watch women's hoops very often.

Lucky for them.

Nevadaref

The CBS announcers's statement, which is clearly wrong, was "It should have been called a travel as soon as he lifted his pivot foot."

That is what they need to retract. Unless they do, they will continue to perpetuate a rather annoying basketball rules myth.

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