While true, if SGA did it, there would be threads made about it the moment it happened, talking about why the NBA is a failed product.

That one was insanely bad though. He tried doing the Harden step back and took like 3-4 mini steps lol.

This is apropos of nothing, but for some reason I cannot stop thinking about Luka’s first possession of this season. His pivot foot (if you can even call that) moves 6 or 7 times in about 3 seconds.

The league itself literally posted a clip of a travel and called it “great footwork”. They are taking the piss.

Not surprising that it was Curry lol

So let’s propose that Watson makes this shot and the l2m says that the last play of the game was a foul, does anybody else think their wind should be reversed and count as a loss? Or I am I alone in this train of thought

The lack of carry enforcement is the root of the problem. It’s what enables delaying the gather “moment” for so long

I don’t know, my school coach was able to call it pretty consistently. Having 3 refs with all the cameras should be plenty to call travels consistently. Especially given that they should be way more experienced than my school coach.

The gather step is allowed cause it gives offenses more opp to score which is what fans enjoy. But its hard to watch when growing up it wasn’t allowed.

I understood the ruling to be that he doesn’t get a gather step because he jump stopped when gathering and thus wasn’t progressing? Here are the travel rules related to the gather as of their first introduction:

A player who gathers the ball while progressing may (a) take two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball or (b) if he has not yet dribbled, one step prior to releasing the ball to start his dribble.

A player who gathers the ball while dribbling may take two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball.

It seems like the right ruling to me. Mechanically, that’s identical to a typical post-up (just at an odd spot on the floor). Can you imagine if guys could jump stop to gather, pivot to face-up, and still have another step?

Edit to add: In case it’s unclear, I understand that you’re not arguing against the call but just saying the rule is unclear. I just think this specific situation has been a clear travel under the rules, and it’s not that hard to call. The refs just didn’t call it for whatever reason.

Players are def getting away with too much these days, but I don’t think there’s any version of the rules where the travel is easy to call. No matter where you draw the line it’s never going to be clear cut.

At some point you would think they’d just follow the rules but we had the start of the MN and OKC game and coaches can’t get thrown out every game….

I think it’s because he shuffled his left foot a bit after/during the catch. Otherwise wouldnt the left foot obviously be the pivot here?

But if you call this travel you’d have to call about 25 others every game that are as bad if not much worse.

Jump stop is the difference. Lifting pivot foot from a standstill or after a jump stop is a travel.

So they just fabricate the L2M and make it false?

Trust a Nuggets fan to complain about rules when it doesn’t benefit them, if it was against OKC you’d be begging for the call. Smh

I disagree, ticky tacky calls are not fun

I would be annoyed if they called this

Edit: A lot of people here are not understanding what the foul call actually is. Taking 2 steps is NOT the foul call, that is allowed if done from a standstill. The foul call is due to him moving his left foot slightly before taking the two steps which caused his right foot to become the pivot, which he then picks up and puts down. If he didn’t do that slight movement of his left foot this would be perfectly legal.

You don’t see it because he does it every other play so you thought it was legal

You can go find em

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