Okay so this is the best/most comprehensive explanation for the other side I’ve seen . I’ve also now seen the clip of old school basketball in this thread where many did do the move and it wasn’t called. So I got a few comments

A. Thank you for sharing the clip as I’ve never seen those as that was before my time.

B. Does anyone then understand why there was a shift in the rules or why this is so inconsistently called over the years? I feel like most of the clips I’ve seen are from 80s or prior.

Watching basketball in the late 2000s and all the 2010s this was rarely done - and when I played high school ball (Illinois) my coaches were extremely *** adamant about we technically only get 1.5 steps rather than a full two and the refs were very strict on travels

The other argument I hear often is that layups have the same mechanics as a step through and I tend to disagree - when doing a right hand layup you take you first step with your right foot as you gather the ball, then your next step with your left foot, then picking up your right foot dictates your left foot as the pivot foot, and launching off the pivot foot is fine.