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Forum: Basketball Tue Aug 13, 2013, 05:02pm
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
Keep It Simple ...

Here are the simple parts: Once a player stops dribbling and holds the ball, he establishes a pivot foot. On a pass, or a shot, the pivot foot may be lifted, but may not return to the floor before...
Forum: Basketball Tue Aug 13, 2013, 04:47pm
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
Cha-Cha-Cha ...

If this takes place before the player holds the ball, then it has absolutely no bearing on a travel, or a no travel, call. If this takes place after the player holds the ball, then easy peasey lemon...
Forum: Basketball Tue Aug 13, 2013, 04:42pm
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
Pivot Foot ...

Grabbed? That's holding the ball. Identify a pivot foot and realize that there on now restrictions on moving that pivot foot.
Forum: Basketball Tue Aug 13, 2013, 04:40pm
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
The Rain In Spain Stays Mainly In The Plain, By George, She's Got It ...

Like a ray of sunshine coming through the clouds, potato is 100% correct. There is no pivot foot before the player holds the ball.

potato: Please note two keys on your keyboard, one on the lower...
Forum: Basketball Tue Aug 13, 2013, 04:30pm
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
We'll Be Taking Depositions Early Next Week ...

BadNewsRef, Esquire, is correct. No way will I let potato make a common, ordinary, garden variety, travel violation call be more difficult than it actually is. I normally like a challenge, but this...
Forum: Basketball Tue Aug 13, 2013, 04:12pm
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
Step On It ...

Listen to bob, and to JRutledge. It's not about counting steps. It's never about counting steps. Never has been about counting steps. Never will be about counting steps. It's about the pivot foot,...
Forum: Basketball Tue Aug 13, 2013, 12:33am
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
Stop Counting Steps ...

"3-4 steps"? Stop counting steps. Counting steps has nothing to do with traveling, it's all about identifying a pivot foot and knowing the limitations on the player's pivot foot once that player...
Forum: Basketball Tue Aug 13, 2013, 12:20am
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
Words Get In The Way (Gloria Estefan) ...

"Stay on my hand"? That's holding the ball, dribble has ended, now you have limitations in regard to what you can, and cannot, legally do.

"Lateral movement"? Once that hand gets to the point...
Forum: Basketball Tue Aug 13, 2013, 12:05am
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
Sammy, Give Me A Little Traveling Music (Jackie Gleason) ...

Hand on the ball? At some point, early on in this move, he's going to travel as he moves his pivot foot while holding the ball.
Forum: Basketball Mon Aug 12, 2013, 11:59pm
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
If He Lifts That Pivot Foot, He Can Only Shoot, Or Pass ...

The ball is "on" his hand? Sounds to me like he's holding the ball with that one hand. Yes it's legal for him to continue doing something, but he's limited to what he can do because he has now ended...
Forum: Basketball Mon Aug 12, 2013, 11:52pm
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
Well, Technically, An Eight Minute Time Limit, But ...

Stop right there. You have already been advised to stay away from counting steps in regard to traveling (always listen to bob), and, rather, stick to identifying, and knowing the limitations on a...
Forum: Basketball Mon Aug 12, 2013, 11:45pm
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
Throw Out The Baby WithThe Bathwater ...

While palming, or carrying, is a legitimate violation in basketball, in reality it's actually either a travel violation, or an illegal (double) dribble violation, depending on whether, or not, the...
Forum: Basketball Mon Aug 12, 2013, 11:34pm
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
Stop Right There, I Gotta Know Right Now, Before We Go Any Further (Meatloaf) ...

Stop right there. "Hold"? The dribble has now ended and the player is limited in regard to what he can, or can't, do with his pivot foot, according to the traveling rules.
Forum: Basketball Mon Aug 12, 2013, 06:14am
Replies: 48
Views: 34,810
Posted By BillyMac
Does This Help ???

While dribbling, a player can slam the ball down onto the court with such force such that it bounces twenty-five feet into the air, and then take fifteen steps while the ball is in the air, and not...
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