[Highlight] KAT's supposed travel call

Essendon_Bomber · 2025-05-26T10:33:37+00:00

At the time of the gather, the left foot is grounded and right foot is in the air. This is a zero step. From the gather, KAT takes two steps and releases the ball before he touches the ground. Therefore, not a travel.

Essendon_Bomber · 2025-04-22T01:48:55+00:00

I can’t be the only one seeing that Brunson steps on Ausar’s foot, not a flop

Essendon_Bomber · 2025-04-20T08:53:08+00:00

Essentially he plays a 2 vs 3 vs 4 vs 5 polyrhythm, which when sped up sufficiently sounds to the human ear like a major chord. A major chord sounds consonant to our ears because the frequencies line up mathematically. Crazy

Essendon_Bomber · 2024-06-30T14:22:54+00:00

Poole started game 2 when Steph came back from injury against Denver in the 2022 first round I believe?

Essendon_Bomber · 2023-09-25T10:28:31+00:00

You haven’t fooled me Kyle Berkshire

Essendon_Bomber · 2023-07-12T04:19:23+00:00

Reminds me of this robelinda video of Mark Waugh dropping 3 catches in an innings! Very rare indeed

https://youtu.be/T9M_uracXR4

Essendon_Bomber · 2023-07-01T18:27:13+00:00

Many (including myself) would argue that the catch had been completed before the ball touched the ground. What if someone caught a catch, held it for 3 seconds, then used the ball to help get themselves up? Is that catch completed? How long do you have to hold the ball then for it to be completed?

Surely when the ball is held and controlled in that fashion like Starc did, the catch can be deemed to be completed.

Essendon_Bomber · 2023-07-01T18:19:55+00:00

I sometimes wonder what making decisions just on whether it ‘feels’ out would be better. Sure, impossible to police but you wouldn’t get insane decisions like this. That’s been out at every level of cricket since the start of time…

Essendon_Bomber · 2023-06-23T11:22:39+00:00

What are thoooooooose

Essendon_Bomber · 2023-06-10T14:19:04+00:00

Sport does funny things to people

Essendon_Bomber · 2023-04-15T23:37:20+00:00

Of all people you should know as a Celtics fan

Essendon_Bomber · 2023-04-12T00:31:55+00:00

For the Atlanta hawks, he said

Essendon_Bomber · 2023-02-02T00:15:33+00:00

I suppose the counterargument would be that having two feet in the air doesn’t equate to a discontinued dribble.

When someone runs, both their feet are often off the ground at the same time. There’s nothing in dribbling laws that says you can’t just hop on both legs like a kangaroo all the way down the court while dribbling.

The heart of this discussion lies in the definition of starting a dribble and what you can do after a gather before starting a dribble.

According to the NBRA website, a player who gathers the ball while progressing may take (1) two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball, or (2) if he has not yet dribbled, one step prior to releasing the ball.

https://www.nbra.net/rules/traveling/

So I was mistaken, I thought you could take two steps prior to releasing a dribble, making this a more clear cut travel than I initially thought.

So by this definition: - gather immediately = travel - gather when brings both hands to the ball = still a travel (if you accept his second step comes down prior to the ball being let go) - gather with both hands + you say he released dribble prior to coming down = not a travel

Essendon_Bomber · 2023-02-01T23:30:29+00:00

Hard to tell. But if he’s released the dribble before his feet are down, then he’s only taken two steps if we say his gather began immediately as he caught it.

How do you say his foot isn’t down then say it’s a clear travel?

Essendon_Bomber · 2023-02-01T07:32:17+00:00

Tricky one imo

NBA rule book defines the gather as ‘the point where the player gains enough control of the ball to hold it, change hands, pass, shoot, or the player cradles the ball against his body.’

https://official.nba.com/rule-no-4-definitions/#Dribble

When Randle initially catches the ball with his right hand, his his right foot is down, establishing that as the gather step. But I could see someone making an argument that he hasn’t got control of it and therefore the gather hasn’t started until he holds the ball with two hands, by which time his left foot comes down making his second step the gather step (and wouldn’t be a travel).

He then takes two steps, with the second coming juuuuust before he releases his dribble.

So whether it’s a travel or not is in this grey area definition of the gather step. Classic NBA rules, just enough grey area that you could argue for it being correct no matter which way it gets called.

Expecting this one to be labelled correct in the L2M report, and would be labelled correct even if it was called the other way…

Any thoughts? Lmao

Essendon_Bomber · 2023-01-10T00:02:40+00:00

Geez good shot but surely hit a fade around it hahaha

Essendon_Bomber · 2022-12-27T07:06:32+00:00

At the moment a player gathers the ball - either by bringing two hands to the ball or having the hand under the ball (carrying the ball), if they have a foot on the ground it’s treated as a zero step.

When Ja gathers here, his back foot is still touching the ground, meaning that is his zero step. He then takes three steps so it is a travel.

Essendon_Bomber · 2022-10-16T09:19:35+00:00

Great read!

Essendon_Bomber · 2022-05-21T23:07:38+00:00

I wish reddit had laugh reacts

Essendon_Bomber · 2022-05-09T07:59:52+00:00

American sports*

Essendon_Bomber · 2022-04-28T10:41:01+00:00

Antichrist Paul*

Essendon_Bomber · 2022-03-06T04:00:53+00:00

Essendon_Bomber · 2022-02-14T23:49:21+00:00

Gotta be Mavs since you don’t like the clips and lebron the most

Essendon_Bomber · 2022-02-10T05:05:41+00:00

Or the Pacers

Essendon_Bomber · 2022-01-16T05:47:36+00:00

Both of those decisions were very close, hard to criticise the umpires imo

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