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Cheak the Ben Gordon play, was that a travel or not? If it is, i hate when Ref's dont call it!! Lebron and Wade are the masters of travelling and getting away with it, cheak youtube videos on that.






http://broadband.nba.com/cc/playa.php?c ... basite=nba

I find Wade's the worst, he's the first player (actually the only player) that I've come to hate because of all the calls he gets, you can't come within a 5 foot radius of the guy, and he'll tuck the ball in like a full-back and drive to the hoop traveling and they never call it. It makes me sick.

^^^agree

watching the calls Wade gets just makes me want to vomit. I remain utterly convinced that the Mavs were robbed by the heat

Yeah BG took 3 steps there. Roy also took 3 steps. Maggette's play was a backcourt violation. So 3/10 of the plays were off violations.

wade's team is almost as bad as the wolves this year. in fact, if they played in the west, i doubt they'd have more than 4 wins.

so lets call it even. mavs choked last year too, so what's their excuse again? can't blame wade two years in a year!

I play basketball a lot, but I've never been clear on travelling. Can someone explain how many steps you can take?

So you can hop and take 2 and a half extra steps or what?

faze wrote:Yeah BG took 3 steps there. Roy also took 3 steps. Maggette's play was a backcourt violation. So 3/10 of the plays were off violations.

O snap!! Roy did travel...

hump43 wrote:I play basketball a lot, but I've never been clear on travelling. Can someone explain how many steps you can take?

So you can hop and take 2 and a half extra steps or what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_%28basketball%29

I always understood it as no more than two steps, your second step becoming your pivot foot when stopping or your jumping foot. Could be totally wrong though. It was always a "feel" thing when I ref'd, you could just tell what was and wasn't travelling without counting actual steps.

Crap! I knew there was somthing wrong with that Roy drive to the basket.

From that last slow motion it's a clear travel.

To OP: Indeed an amazing travel by Ben G.

ben and roy definitely travelled. i think u take one step and if u make one of those big hops it counts as the second step and u can work with ur pivot foot from there...at least that what i do. what annoys me more are people cradling the ball all day long and they think they got handles.

I counted 3 steps

Roy travelled...

Gordon travelled..

Magette did not go backcourt, it looks like it was tipped from the video, and the Lakers didn't object when he picked up the ball...

I don't think Roy travelled. It looks like his first step was part of his last dribble.

It was always a "feel" thing when I ref'd, you could just tell what was and wasn't travelling without counting actual steps.

lol then you are a terrible ref.

Roy travelled but I don't think Gordon did...

I think we're confusing the first step with the progress of catching the ball.

Do some slow motion layups and you'll realise that your first 'step' on a right handed layup involves catching the ball with your right hand while your left foot is either planted or coming off the floor.

Then it's right, left, up.

What gets me is that nearly everyone travels when they put the ball on the floor to drive to the hoop (lifting their pivot foot well before the ball is dribbled to the floor)... but only Bargs gets consistantly called for it.

The other night against Houston, Luther Head was clearly travelling over and over again, but the refs just refused to call it.