I have counted five times that players have received a ball flat footed and before putting the ball on the floor to dribble are moving both feet almost like a hop and then dribble. I believe that's walking and I haven't seen one call.
Refereeing in St. Johns vs Marquette
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It might of already reached that point, I only watched for about 3 mins.
Technically a step and a half…one step coming off a dribble or pass. You can’t change pivot feet…that’s two steps but a travel. So what the poster is describing is a travel. However, these days I couldn’t tell you what a travel is because they allow so much.
I'll never understand why that Euro-step is OK.
I believe they are. Tough, aggressive defensively and on the boards. They are challenged with their outside shooting.
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Especially what they consider a Euro-step these days. It often involves three steps yet is still allowed.
Did you see the technical in the Creighton game yesterday where the STJ player hits a three and holds out three fingers (thumb, index, middle) and got teed up for the "brandishing a weapon" gesture? I can't conceive of a more idiotic rule.
Didn't like the call but they saw him point his finger at the player which can be deemed a "gun". Had he had his hand up in the air it would have been fine. Again don't like the call but I get the weapon rule....surprised people get away by the "sword celebration" as I'm sure that will.be called next.
At least they won big so it didn't matter.
I'm surpried you can still call it shooting the basketball or use the word jump shooter. I can't interpret what hand signal a kid is making after a 3 pointer most of the time. The refs are missing foul calls and traveling calls but were able to see the kid's hand and interpret it as a gun. Felt like a terrible time to stop the game for that. Maybe just wait until a stoppage and talk to the kid about what he thought he saw and remind him of the rule. The teams were playing extremely hard but clean. The call was bad. Shooter McGavin should've been kicked off the tour for his celebrations.
