No Euro Step allowed in the 80’s & 90’s. 3 examples where 2 step Euros are called for traveling
People say shit like if kyrie played back then they’d get him on trial for witchcraft when in reality the refs would just call travel on him nonstop
Nah, they would hit him with the carry whistle quite a bit also.
him and every other player with “handles”
KD is one of the most egregious when it comes to carrying
Only role players get hit with a carry, and only if they’re driving. Like i know its kinda pointless to the result of a game to call carries when its not being used to beat a defender, but the amount of times playmakers will bring it out of the back court and get their hand under the ball every dribble while they point players where to go is ridiculous. I cant unsee Jokic doing it near every time. Ja, Russ, Luka, Lebron, Draymond, Brunson etc. do it all the damn time as well. Travelling calls are so slack players are doing it even when they dont “have” to
That one clip of Russ just walking with the ball for 5 steps in the backcourt while trying to direct traffic and the Warriors players losing their minds until it finally got called was hilarious.
That clip is one of my all time favorite NBA highlights. It’s just such a ridiculous situation. Especially at the end when his stats come up and he has 9TO and 8AST.
Imagine Ginóbili
To be fair, I do think all modern NBA players would quickly adjust to the tighter whistles and stop incurring all the violations.
I also firmly believe all the star players from yesteryear would similarly adapt their games to the freedom of movement modern players have and develop a “bag” that would rival the best of today’s game.
Yeah no shit. What is the “to be fair about”? They’d adapt but then wouldn’t look like they have super wizard ball skills.
There are a lot of comments and posts about certain guys being unable to play in a given era. Hell, there was a meme going around a few months ago about how MJ “didn’t have a bag” so that’s what the “to be fair” is about.
A majority of modern player’s offensive bag would’ve been called for carries or travels back then. Not saying players aren’t better now but there wouldn’t be such a large gap if the rules weren’t officiated so differently.
It’s basically two different sports in my opinion
Pinoy step would’ve been a 3 game suspension no pay
Larry O’Brien would’ve beat the player to death in the middle of the court
Garroted at the center circle for the whole world to see
#BringBackPostFootwork
Too bad classic postups aren’t as prominent anymore
straight up when they get the switch the guard will be iso’ing the mismatch while the bigs just dismiss themselves to the 3 point line with some 6 ft 4 guard on him
It’s such a lost art, that’s why watching Joel Embiid post up is such a treat lol.
it’s tiring and only gets you 2 points
where jacking up a 3 gets you 3 points and considerably less physically demanding
Or its a basket and foul….
if perimeter players didn’t get to travel constantly and have moving screens constantly, post ups might be worth it again math wise.
lakers dude who inbounded the ball was on the line, let’s talk about that lol
AD and Draymond are frequently not behind the line when inbounding. Refs don’t call it anymore.
unless you’re marcus smart
His poor karma is well deserved
What’s the actual rule? Feet, or entire body has to be behind the plane?
Aura
Lakers dude is mychal Thompson, Klays dad
Could you imagine if they had reddit after the 3pt line was added.
Usenet dropped during the season the line was added. There may have been some Bell Labs mf beefing with a Reed College guy about it.
Eurostep is legal, gather step was not.
There was no gather step in the second clip and it was still called a travel.
that second clip is just bad call, no travel in any era.
Technically it was a travel. For most of basketballs history the rule book stipulated you couldn’t take more than one step after picking up your dribble. It just wasnt usually enforced, which is why they amended it to two steps in 2009.
No, the rule book never said you only get one step after picking up your dribble. Two steps have always been allowed. The confusion back then was about the gather, not the number of steps. When your last dribble and foot hit the floor together, some refs counted the next foot (where the gather had just occurred after the last step) as step one, and others treated that foot as part of the gather and allowed for two more steps after that. That’s why sometimes you’d only get one more step and sometimes you’d get two, and why people would argue about whether it was a travel. But you’d always get at least 2 steps after your last dribble, if not 3 (where the one step tied to the gather doesn’t count)
The 2009 update didn’t add a second step. It just clarified the gather so refs would call it consistently. The way the NBA calls it now is the same way most refs already called it long before 2009.
He drags the following foot, so it was actually a good call imo. Only the third one was incorrect as far as I can tell.
Not sure why almost no one is pointing out this obvious fact - a lot of these types of travels (especially older) is about dragging the foot.
Not necessarily the “amount of steps”.
what frame by frame, he didn’t
Bad call, refs did not know what they were watching
if you took each of these plays and had the ball handler take the same two steps but in a straight line rather than changing direction, i dont think any call wouldve been made
even though there should be no difference there according to the rulebook
“Step-Through” is the most illegal move of all times, done purely because of the badly written rule by the NBA
NBA Rulebook - Section XIII - Traveling, rule D:
If a player, with the ball in his possession, raises his pivot foot off the floor, he must pass or shoot before his pivot foot returns to the floor
Rule omits to note what the non-pivot foot can do. So a player who has come to a Halt, a complete stop, can somehow walk another 1 and a half steps and move from the position where he lost the ability to … move
Here’s why it became legal somehow: FIBA + NBA screw-up in 1998 Olympics, FIBA Clearly states, to this day, that you CANT step-through -
FIBA Rulebook 2018 (last update), Article 25.2.1 Traveling:
To pass or shoot for a field goal, the player may jump off a pivot foot, but neither foot may be returned to the floor before the ball is released from the hand(s)
You may have seen Kobe who understood FIBA rules, that he Never step-through-ed, but actually jumped with both feet, once he losses dribbling
During 1998 Olympics, when USA Women’s basketball team started using a Step-through, they had to come to an agreement, so FIBA caved in, and allowed it, and instructed further reffing bodies to allow for the move, even though FIBA rule is clearly preventing it
It lives to this day. Anthony Edwards did Step-through 2 times @ Olympics and no ref called it
Should be illegal, defeats the purpose of a lost dribbling and a halt, and allows for a well defended player to move once again.
There’s a youtube channel dedicated to showing that the step through is a legal move. https://www.youtube.com/@stepthroughjoe8815/videos
His most recent video shows a clip of it being done in an instructional video from 1950. I’ve gone to that video and found the exact spot the step through is done.
https://youtu.be/LUMpsjZsstM?t=252
They lift 1 foot to go into the spin, then lift the other as part of the motion of their forward jump. The pivot is lifted before the other foot is off the ground.
People complaining about step through do not understand the rules of basketball. It is a move as old as the game, and a fundamental in low post game. The way it’s done today was even a typical OG move a few years ago. It’s amazing how we a re-discovering things and complaining about they.
I know this guy and he’s constantly fighting for hisc ause lmao.
I don’t get how you think jumping off 2 feet is different. You literally are lifting your pivot and your non-pivot and not landing on either before releasing the ball, just like the normal step through.
Completely agree. It is ridiculous that a player can use their 2 steps, come to a full stop, and then step through to get to a better position.
There is no « 2 steps » in basketball, only application of the pivot foot. When you are doing a layup, you first plant your pivot foot, lift it up, then your non-pivot foot and jumping on it. If you put your pivot foot back on the foot it’s a travel. That is the same exact thing as a step through. Just add the gather step rule on top of that. Step through has been legal for decades even in FIBA ruleset where gather step was a big no no not so long ago.
That’s not correct. If this were the interpretation, a layup would actually be a travel, since you would be landing on your non-pivot foot after raising your pivot foot.
A pivot and non-pivot foot are only established after stopping. There absolutely is a “two step” rule, it’s about coming to a stop out of movement with the ball.
Players use their two steps to come to a stop, and then they can pivot. The step through is nothing but a sequence of lifting your feet after a pivot that gives you the ability to jump further forward. You are not actually taking an extra step.
That’s just not true. The step through is, and has always been, a legal move. Both in Europe and the NBA. I was being taught that move in Germany as a kid before 1998.
The non-pivot foot doesn’t do anything at that point anymore, it was used to pivot before the pivot foot was raised. Then the player shifts their weight forward onto the non-pivot foot and jumps forward. The rules never forbade that, hence it’s never been illegal. The 1 in your 1.5 steps is the pivot, the .5 is the jump, neither of which have ever been against the rules.
People just don’t take the time to actually try to read and understand the rules. There even is an educational video on YouTube for FIBA refs from the early 90s where an example is shown that has the exact same step sequence as a step through and is presented as a legal move… Because it is… The times I had to explain this topic at pick up games is also frustrating…
And then there are the other extremes where the player jumps for the step through - off the pivot, both feet in the air, landing on non pivot and then jumping off of that one… Then they say this is a step through… Most people really have no idea about the actual rules
(There is even a YouTube video where the person tries to explain the step through, then demonstrates it with a “jump through” - no wonder people are confused)
There’s a park near me where I go to get shots up and the last two times there was a guy there coaching young girls. He had them doing a drill where they dribble into the paint, pick up their dribble to fake a shot, spin, and then take two extra steps past their defender for a layup.
It hurt my heart to see kids being coached to play in a way that is not only illegal, but ugly as hell.
You can do that with proper footwork. Well, you can’t take two extra steps but you can absolutely pick up your dribble, fake, spin, step with your non-pivot, and shoot. It’s called a reverse pivot and it’s one of the best examples of great footwork you can find in basketball.
I don’t know why someone’s teaching that to young kids, they won’t have the momentum required on the spin to shoot it afterwards, which is probably why they travel. Plus it’s like the Shammgod, you should only really practice that when you can do everything else clean.
FIBA rule absolutely does not forbid a step through. Don’t know why you interpret it this way but the myth about having to jump off of both feet is so common when this is nowhere stated in the rules.
You marked that neither foot may return before shooting or passing but in a correct step through the non pivot foot doesn’t return to the floor before shooting you just jump off it? If you leave both feet in your step through move that is travelling (it basically is a jump through instead of a step through)
And here is Kobe with a step through lifting his pivot first https://youtu.be/ESuv8P726yw?is=22p8EkNRe-RW950c
It’s a legal move and has always been a legal move. It’s been legal, way, way, way, way before the ‘98 Olympics and it’s not a loophole, you just find it icky. Lifting the non-pivot foot is how the majority of layups happen.
1996 olympics? 98 was winter games in Japan.
Step-through isn’t illegal in FIBA. They just often called it a travel until like 5 years ago, because it looked funny. But now a lot of players use it and refs mostly allow it.
They did not call it then either, we were taught that move in every youth training camp 30 years ago already in Europe.
How many steps are we up to get called for a walk now?
Who is the player, and are they dunking? If a star and dunking or doing a step back, it’s seven.
Reminded of the best old school ref rule: if you commit a charge while dunking, there is no foul, and also you are free to taunt your downed opponent
Return of the Rule Of Cool 😤
Had to look 5 comments deep for someone to say it. Learn some ball guys
Tell kyrie to dribble without palming and he gonna look just like those plumbers they always hating on.
Can we please stop with the hand checking is no longer allowed bullshit. Watch the Knicks-Spurs or OKC-Spurs series if you think it’s no longer allowed.
You were allowed to hand check the entire drive back then. Now you will usually only have up to 1-3 seconds before a foul is called. That’s a big difference
Edit: downvotes from people who don’t know ball
You could also essentially control movement by guiding the hip. It’s why isolation is much more successful at the 3 point line now.
Also they would call more fouls if you have the ball. If you’re off ball is fair play for anyone
I think you don’t understand what hand checking really was back then. People could literally have a hand on you at all times except when shooting. They could stir your drive and stop you from gathering.
You can’t even do a tenth of that today.
It is hilarious that comment gets upvoted when it just show people do not understand what hand checking actually was. They see any contact and think that is the same.
It’s all Bron stans trying to downplay how hard it was for MJ to averge 30+ pts with handchecking and Jordan rules
I watched OKC hand check all year and not get called for it, specifically Lu Dort.
Allowed in playoffs. Less so regular season
You don’t get it. If you played even HS basketball in the era it was legal, it’d make more sense. Strength with handchecking meant you were literally redirecting the offensive player. You could use an arm to limit/push their movement unless they were strong enough to negate it.
There’s a reason the best 90’s PGs (Payton, Stockton, Kidd, etc). were all known to be extremely strong pound for pound.
That meant the pure face-up handles game like Kyrie and SGA do wasn’t viable, even aside from travel calls.
not sure how that makes your point when you have to resort to the last series of the season to see that
The real difference is at the 3 point line. The defender could literally keep one hand on a players waist, while they hack with the other hand. You cannot do that today, and would absolutely be called with a foul.
Gather step wasn’t a thing back then.
It shouldn’t be now.
My favorite is when a player takes 3 steps on his “gather” and people earnestly defend it. You have plays where dudes take 5 steps without a dribble and it’s totally fine to fans.
Rule was changed in 2009-2010 to allow the extra gather step.
Before that a lot of current NBA moves were travelling.
Two steps weren’t even legal back then, let alone the gather step. Refs typically looked the other way though as long as the player was moving in a straight line.
I don’t know about NBA but in FIBA two steps were always legal. That’s how they taught us to do layups back in the 90s.
What wasn’t legal was this gather step that basically makes it a 3 step layup now. 1st step was your gather step and 2nd step was the last allowed step. That’s how everyone played in Europe until like 10 years ago
I don’t know how travelling was meant to be interpreted before the term gather step was added into the rulebook, but this article is saying that officially you were only allowed to take only one step. Although this wasn’t properly enforced.
ROD STRICKLAND. legend
This is really interesting to see. Open to counterpoints but I actually feel like what we are seeing in the video is the correct enforcement of the rule and they started being more lax because they wanted more offense
I don’t see any way the last one was more than 2 steps
Honestly I think it’s just because he’s changing direction during his steps, and they are long strides verse a regular step you take when running. They weren’t used to seeing that so called travel. It’s like the two steps were given only with the right trajectory and cadence.
What I think is hilarious is that people calling players who popularized ‘new’ forms of footwork as innovative. People did that stuff well before them. It was called a travel so they didn’t keep doing it. I am not offended by the euro step stuff, but I really hate the long steps that is basically just a long jump for each ‘step’.
I’ve gotten used to the Eurostep and I’m cool with it.
The one that throws me off as someone who has played basketball his whole life is the move where they have stopped dribbling and are stuck and somehow take a step and half to the basket and that is a legal move.
Step through, it’s dumb
I literally would have been called for travel in 4th grade for that one. I don’t get it
The step through has been legal since the 60s. You can find clips online of Wilt and Kareem doing it
Yeah somehow that was legal even before most of these other ‘unique’ moves. There’s gotta be more travels called regardless. Settle on some stuff that just doesn’t make sense. To me the ones that I think should be immediately outlawed are the step backs. If you want to leap back like an inverse hop step, fine. It shouldn’t take more than one step.
Long jump steps, no. Dumb. Stop it. It was dumb when I tried it in 4th grade. It’s still dumb.
I hate it so much.
The second and third ones have no gather step. They’re just plain old two steps. It’s literally an incorrect enforcement of the travel rule.
the rules have never changed, the wording was changed in 2009 to make it more clear. eurostep rise in the nba was 03-07. the rules always allowed for the move. refs calling things off vibes in 3 cherrypicked plays of the past isn’t particularly proof of anything.
iverson in 04-05
right lol, ppl bringing up a handful of random plays as if it’s some smoking gun when there are incorrect calls all the time
False. Show me where in the official NBA rules that a eurostep is a travel.
Section XIII—Traveling
The counter point is that 3 plays cannot accurately portray a 20 year period, you could find “good calls” and “bad calls” in every era. That’s the problem with basing opinions on highlight or lowlight reels, they only show you what the creator wants to show you.
To me it’s pretty clear that innovative moves like the euro are incorrectly called at first until they’re normalized and better understood. But this thread will almost certainly turn into an oldhead circlejerk
The rule changed in 2009-2010 to allow that. Before then it was subject to interpretation and strictly speaking a travel.
I’ve always been curious what made it a travel (as long as you take the same number of steps). Does the change in direction count as more steps?
No not at all, and it’s clearly not a travel by rule today. Before 2009 the rules were a little bit outdated and unclear in this area so it was often up to the interpretation of the refs. That means that new moves like this were sometimes just incorrectly called a travel
Rules were just codified and clarified. The alternative to a gather is a stricter rule set that is almost impossible to officiate and is not consistent on various situations.
This is what people don’t understand. Theres no clear and logically consistent alternative to the rules we have today. The same rule that would clearly ban a lot of these newer moves that people don’t like would also ban extremely natural moves that have been around forever
It hadn’t been referreed that way in years though. The gather rules were a codification of how the rules were already being interpreted.
The funny thing is the eurostep was legal in the 50s/60s/70s. They just had a different name for it I think it was called the Baylor Step or something. Then they started calling it a travel in the 80s and 90s
Maybe now nephs will listen when we say that scoring has been made a bit easier for the offensive player.
Help defence was illegal. Maybe they called more travels back then, but the illegal defence rules were a lot more beneficial for the offence before.
Not to mention a majority of players today can shoot competently from every level (paint, mid, deep) which is fundamentally more important than whether ball handlers carry more or take too many steps sometimes.
You don’t even have to go back to the 80s to see that
Maybe I’m blind but in no way do I see traveling
Now we have Giannis using 1 dribble to travel down the full length of the court for a dunk.
It’s not the euro step, it’s that infamous “gather” step that makes this 3 steps.
Less than 3 because the gather has to happen mid stride
Back in the 90’s refs didn’t buy that. The moment you stopped bouncing the ball, it was the next 2 steps that counted. All that “gathering” bullshit started in the twenty tens.
That’s unenforceable, it would make stutter steps a travel. When exactly do you determine someone has “stopped bouncing the ball”? (Hint: it’s when they gather)
I agree that the league has gotten looser with the interpretation over time, I’m saying it’s not really an issue.
The bigger issue in my opinion is the carry, which makes the gather step even more egregious and ball handlers harder to defend. The extra half step creates more fluidity in my opinion.
This was a legal play by the rulebook then, these are just bad calls.
What we should really take from this video is how little people used to argue with the refs.
Refs used to call travelling every time the move looked funny. It didn’t really matter if it broke the rules or not
Are we supposed to pretend that’s good?
retro ballers can’t decide if they want to claim that they were the OG eurosteppers or if it wasn’t allowed back then
both
a player in the 60s: look guys, i came up with an illegal move
Wish we could go back travel rules make no sense
This being a travel makes no sense.
The travel rules are pretty simple now. People just don’t care to learn.
I just want to see 1 modern NBA game officiated like this lol
Clip 2 is 100% legal without a gather step, completely bullshit referring on that one.
I don’t think it’s the Euro step that’s called per-se, but the “gather step” prior.
clips 2 and 3 had no gather step
Yup, the euro step just makes the gather stand out more so it’s much easier to count the sequence as 3 steps.
Here’s Jordan doing one.
And another.
Eurostep is just stepping off the pivot foot onto the free foot, jumping off the free foot and shooting before the pivot comes back on the ground, but with sideways movement rather than forwards like the traditional layup.
It’s the gather step that has allowed the three step action. I wish they’d go back to stopping it.
I feel like this is more evidence of officiating being kinda garbage back then, or maybe an example of the refs not really understanding what they’re seeing. I definitely think that gather rules have become extremely lax over the years, but all three of these plays weren’t even close to travels.
Would say these more poor calls than anything else. Last two didn’t even gather step
All those defenders got COOKED lol
Those were as clean as you can get…still fouls lol
Perimeter offensive players also didn’t have to worry about help defense if they beat their man. There’s a reason iso guards were some of the most valuable players in this time period.
False. No zone defense =/= no help defense. There was frequently a shot blocking big in the paint plus several other defenders helping.
The biggest takeaway from these clips is actually the lack of protesting from the players… Even on blatantly wrong calls by the ref, the player just accepts the call, leaves the ball and sprints back on defense without saying a word… Just a different generation…
Now, i’m not saying nobody back then got upset at calls and lost their temper, but what i am saying is that it seemingly happened far less than it does now… And that made the game play smoother and made it more watchable…
Nowadays, the players aren’t even protesting every call… They’ve started protesting every NON call as well… So if the ref doesn’t blow the whistle because they think there wasn’t enough contact for a foul… Players like Luka are already in protest while playing… He’s dribbling the ball, driving into a defender, yelling and flopping and screaming for a call before anything even happens…
They called it on me the one time I tried it in high school in 2002. I was yelling at the refs about 2 steps and my coach told me to shut up it was a travel
I think we should find as many was as possible to get the refs more incorporated to the game.
It’s more jarring to see guys get called for turnovers and give the ball to ref without throwing a fit. Can we go back to that?
Marčiulionis was doing the euro step in the 90s often
I always believed the players from the 80s until now are equally skilled. Today’s players just have the benefit of easier rules, play style, and analytics.
half of every ankle breaking play the guy is just carrying. just fully turning the ball around into his palm.
There used to be the absurdly vague phrase two-count rhythm (I believe through the 2009-10 season and removed from the 2010-11 season):
A player who receives the ball while he is progressing or upon completion of a dribble, may use a two-count rhythm in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball.
This vague phrase could be (and indeed was) used to bar the “Euro” until the early 2000s (when Manu popularized it in the NBA and the NBA then somehow decided to allow it, perhaps simply because it was common in the rest of the world).
I don’t think euro step was illegal at that time. It was just wrong officiating because the official saw something they do not usually see and whistle was blown by reflex. Bad call but explainable. It’s not like holding/carrying or gather step, it’s not based on opinion (how low the carry hand is allowed) or timing related (was the ball picked up before or after the step), there are little ambiguity for the euro step.
Well those are bad calls, it’s clearly two steps
Ban the gather step
That’s crazy. Modern nba gather rules is this even considered more than one step?
The funny thing is the refs ain’t no wtf they were even calling cause those not of these guys traveled to my took a legit two steps just going in different directions. No we’re in the rule book did it or does it state that your two steps have to be going forward or in a straight line. So the refs were just hating fr
Huh?
That’s why players like Iverson and Harden deserve so much more credit than stats would indicate
Harden in particular has taken a sledgehammer more to the refs and the rulebook than anyone else in my lifetime
just 20 years ago, Lebron was getting called for his ‘crab dribble’
The good old days.
I’m glad they don’t call it this tight anymore. Game is better with those moves. Now, some of the shit guys get away today should still be called. The palming/carry hesitation shit guys do is insane. If your hand is totally under the ball and you hesi, the defender should be able to assume you picked up your dribble.
This is why I’ll never agree that today’s players would be much better than the older players. These guys could barely dribble back then and still were really good.
Yes but maybe the euro step was less common back then and the refs didn’t know how to officiate it. So then are these simply the times when the refs got the call wrong? Were there other instances when the refs didn’t call travel on such euro steps?
In 2009, they changed the rules essentially to make the Euro step textbook legal.
https://www.espn.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/6035/nba-traveling-we-really-don-t-reference-the-rulebook
Thats why its hard to compare players of different era… different era has different rules…
I dont know the rules much, but with the euro-step allowed now, can a player just pickup the ball and walk two steps anywhere? Wouldn’t that be the same motion?
Most euro steppers are dragging their steps. That’s how they maintain balance while changing direction. It’s travelling.
This is correct and I hope more people read this. It’s the dragging the pivot foot as an advantage. Dragging the pivot is a form of travel.
They should put this back just to see what happens.
These were travels as the rule was written at the time. It wasn’t until 2009 when the NBA made the gather step official that this stuff became legal.
I call BS on that. Yes, the call was made, but it was wrong at the time as well. 3 examples do not make it a general truth, especially since in two of them it is (according to the rules) not a two step, because they drag the foot in the back. When done normally it’s literally the same as the normal steps for a layup.
Generally speaking, since the move was not well known in the NBA, something looked “wrong” to the ref and they might sometimes make the call. It’s only really egregious on the last of the three examples, in the other two I believe they call it because the dragging foot touches the ground and that makes it a correct violation.
You’ll also notice the players are really upset each time too - if that move was generally not allowed they would be reacting very differently.
Good post. I don’t think they allowed a gather step back then. Your gather was step one instead of step zero, so two more after that was a travel.
Players have more leeway these days, not necessarily more skill.
They have to change the rules to make these players look more like stars when in reality, the league is confused why tf those people are allowed to break the rules and they can’t. Years later the average player gets those benefits. It’s gotten so bad that the league has just become an entirely different sport from back then.
When we were learning basketball back in the 90’s in Europe, we’ve told that after 2 steps you have to either shoot the ball or pass the ball immediately, anything else would be considered as traveling.
Correct me if I’m wrong but in the nba after two steps you can totally stop with the ball, search for pass or shoot options for a while.
bi just
In high school ball even through 2015 it was a travel during the school season. AAU was a different story
The gather step was not given the leeway back then as it is today. I personally wish they go back to this strict way of calling it.
They’re all dumb calls. Since when a 2 step is travel, not even a gather step!
I just see bad calls. Refs use to a call a lot of legal moves travels if it didn’t pass the vibe check. A euro step is literally just two steps like any normal layup or dunk that wouldn’t get travel in any era.
These are just bad calls
I don’t even understand how these were called travels other than them not seeing it often
The 2009 Rulebook Update (The “Two-Step” Rule) What changed: Prior to 2009, the written rule strictly allowed only one step after picking up a dribble or receiving a pass while moving, even though referees had allowed two steps in practice for decades. The update: In March 2009, the NBA updated its rulebook to explicitly state that a player in motion may take two steps after completing a dribble or gathering the ball before passing or shooting.
Hope this helps, also in 2019 the defined the gather step. [Zero Step]
And people say they were just less skilled smh
Jimmy high roller did a video on this it’s wild to see. Allen Iversons crossover was getting called a travel when he first came in, and one of the announcers basically said “if we want to see more creativity then we’re going to have to let it go” which is pretty much what they did. But I think at this point it’s ridiculous.
Game was different 40 years ago, got it.
That’s mostly because it’s a travel. Giving it a name doesn’t change much of anything. They’ve just sacrificed rules like travels and double dribbles because it’s better for business.
Bring it back. Sick of all these carries and travels
I’m just here for Fat Lever’s money jumper
I mean, he travelled
Ahhh the good old days! I miss when the rules were actually enforced
I remember being taught the zero/gather step and eurostep in Bostjan Nachbar’s camp, and arguing with him that this is a travel lol. Like 20 years ago. I refused to do this in-game because the refs in Europe were so inconsistent about anything uncommon.
But now It’s as long it’s part of the flow of the game, it’s fine
Bron would have murdered these cats.