floppymoose wrote:og15 wrote:The criticism you could have is lifting the pivot foot
that's what i mean. Lifting the pivot foot while the other foot is still down is, to me, switching the pivot foot. I get it that the rules are using different terminology.
I see, I see, I think it became common usage for some, but is a bit of a misunderstanding of pivot foot definition. Since the idea of a pivot foot is that you are pivoting around it, when a player does a one leg step through, they don't now pivot on the non pivot foot, because they jump and shoot or pas.
It can't actually be called switching pivot foot, though I understand it is called that by people. If they started moving around in circles (pivoting)with their former pivot foot, that would be switching pivot, but that would also get called as a travel anyways as the foot has now come down before shooting or passing.
The problem we run into if we try to make that rule is that there are many situations we don't even think about where players are jumping off their non pivot foot:
Layups, running jumpshots, post up fadeaways, and even on the two footed step through that we might want to defend, if you watch in slow motion, on many, the pivot foot lifts up before the non pivot foot.
So making a blanket rule obviously wouldn't work, that leaves us with saying that the NBA, College, FIBA, WNBA, etc should make a very specific rule to just the step through, which would be quite odd to do.
It would be:
A player can lift their pivot foot to shoot or pass, EXCEPT for when doing a more pronounced one foot step through, where it is more clearly evident that the pivot foot came off the ground before the non pivot foot.
That sounds like a pretty bad rule and very odd to target a specific usage of the pivot foot while allowing all others.
