thinktank wrote:The new one is allowing players to establish a new pivot foot.
They call it the “step through”.
Don’t tell me that was legal the whole time. It wasn’t. Before you had to jump off both your pivot foot and your non-pivot foot at the same time—a two footed leap. Now you can just lift up your pivot foot entirely and jump 100% off your non-pivot foot. Looks cool, but it’s a travel.
theforumblue wrote:i get you. i wish i grew up with the current rule, my post moves would've been damn near unstoppable. feels like cheating.
KyletheDingbat wrote:those step through moves were 100% travels until recently. Not just in the NBA but in all levels - I knew not to do those. When Jordan would rock somebody in the post and turn around to do his lean-in jumper, he jumped off both feet at once. If step throughs were legal back then he would have done them. So the rule has definitely changed - whether it's the letter or interpretation or enforcement.
If you guys could do me a favor:
1) Find a time machine.
2) Travel back in time to the thread on here from 15 years ago where basically everyone was saying that it's not a travel and I was pretty much by myself like a schmuck for weeks arguing that it's a travel. Give me the backup that I needed by saying what you're saying now.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=886276&start=40
Until then, here are my thoughts on you (and the millions of other people) 5 years later, 10 years later, and now 15 years later chiming in when you were nowhere to be found back then:
