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   cpw vuk

   August 13, 2022 at 12:42 pm

   Footwork/rules/refing in the NBA is hilarious. First one from RJ is such a travel it’s not even funny. Since when can you lift your pivot foot in basketball to start a layup on the other foot? All that after you stopped your dribble? Why they even have a travel rule? Like a backcourt violation, it’s a long gone myth by now.

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     jesustenes2

     August 24, 2022 at 10:59 am

     @cpw vuk I thought that you had to jump off both feet (or just the pivot) for a while as well. Actually, everybody was taught that way (even NBA players, Jordan for instance always jumped off both feet, and KG has said on TV that step-throughs are a travel if you jump off one foot). But the rule is very simple : “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.” Again, what helped me understand is that the rules have to be consistent. If I am allowed two steps during layups, I am allowed that same second step as well If I decide to pivot after the first step. With Dirk’s fade it might be more difficult to see (most times he jumps off two feet), but there are clear instances where he pivots with the right foot and does his standard fade off the left. With Kareem it is even easier to see, there aren’t many instances because he usually did the skyhook as a layup, but when he launched it from stationary and his pivot was the right, he clearly takes the extra step to jump off the left only.

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     jesustenes2

     August 24, 2022 at 11:12 am

     @cpw vuk Btw for further info you are right if you consider FIBA rules, which might be the reason why an entire generation thought like that. The FIBA rule is: “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).” In the NBA the only rule is that the pivot foot cannot be landed, but nothing is said wrt the other foot, hence RJ’s move being legal.

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     cpw vuk

     August 24, 2022 at 12:41 pm

     @jesustenes2 The fiba rules are nothing but basketball rules. Nba rules are showtime rules (constant 3 steps layups etc..) that exist nowhere else.

     Real question is: What rules every americans who don’t play in the nba are supposed to follow?

     Basketball rules or nba rules? Seems obvious to me.

     To summarize, RJ’s move is a travel all day in the game called basketball.
     Though it is NEVER a travel in the game called nba basketball. SImple.
     I
     I personally stopped watching nba games because of that alone.

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     jesustenes2

     August 24, 2022 at 12:46 pm

     @cpw vuk Agreed. The problem is, FIBA will eventually catch up to the NBA as it always does (particularly with so many European superstars), so we might as well get used to these “new” rules.

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     cpw vuk

     August 24, 2022 at 1:01 pm

     @jesustenes2 Agreed. It’ll be without me though. I’m just an old “It was better in my time” schmuck.
     Standard.

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2. 

   IZE Lawrence

   August 13, 2022 at 2:56 pm

   Luka is too dirty 🤧

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3. 

   Montrell Garrett

   August 13, 2022 at 5:31 pm

   #MFFL #LETSGOMAVS

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   KELK

   August 14, 2022 at 4:59 am

   1:22 Luka has that cold swagger man

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5. 

   Nymphopath

   August 14, 2022 at 10:46 am

   BEST FLOPS video next?

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6. 

   Gerald Deus

   August 14, 2022 at 12:07 pm

   I am not going to lie these all look like travels to me. I thought you couldn’t change your pivot foot.

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     jesustenes2

     August 24, 2022 at 5:23 am

     Once you establish your pivot and you lift it, you can do anything before you put it back down. So you are not “changing” pivots if your pivot is the left foot and you take an extra step with your right. Think about layups, you first step establish your pivot foot (not really, but bare with me for the comparison), and then you follow that with an extra step with the other foot. For the rules to stay consistent, either layups become illegal or all the fancy moves (fadeaways, skyhooks, step-throughs…) stay legal. Otherwise it seems a bit arbitrary.

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7. 

   Steef VanBuren

   August 15, 2022 at 1:12 am

   CJ Mccollum made em jump like Rod Strickland

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8. 

   goatsoap

   August 15, 2022 at 2:24 pm

   How is the first one not a travel? He picked up his pivot foot before shooting.

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     kuya chris

     August 15, 2022 at 2:53 pm

     You can pick up your pivot foot, you just can’t land back on it with the ball still in your hands. Unless you’re thinking about a jump stop

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9. 

   Elijah.j

   August 15, 2022 at 8:08 pm

   Nikola Jokic footwork is like a soap opera. Always in motion

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10. 

    Thatboy J

    August 21, 2022 at 5:55 pm

    10:43 demar filthy

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11. 

    小米蕭

    August 22, 2022 at 6:06 pm

    wheres that Tatum’s Kobe fade on Butler

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12. 

    Isaac Sours

    August 23, 2022 at 2:23 pm

    Sengun walks at 5:25

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13. 

    Myron Lee Miller

    August 23, 2022 at 9:13 pm

    🥰

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14. 

    Teflon Don

    August 24, 2022 at 9:30 am

    “Best spin and step through moves of the season”

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15. 

    Hari Prasad Poilath

    August 25, 2022 at 9:34 am

    Almost every single highlight here is a unambiguous travelling violation.

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16. 

    Christ

    August 26, 2022 at 9:09 am

    Doncic IS a footwork master

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17. 

    DuckTapeDillinger

    August 26, 2022 at 10:07 pm

    The NBA is racist.
    Too many blacks in NBA.

    There should be a rule: every team must have 50% non-black players.

    That way we promote equality and end racism. Right?

    See how stupid this sounds?
    Now listen to BLM

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18. 

    Todd Sanders

    August 27, 2022 at 6:25 pm

    I have a question and I promise I’m not one of those fans that complain about referees or traveling in the NBA all the time but what’s the rule on establishing a pivot foot? On first watch and again after replaying them, I think Barrett in the first clip, Joker around 6:20 mark, and some other dude at 8:25, are all switching their pivot foot giving them an unfair advantage getting their shot off uncontested. I know the difference between these three moves and all the others in this video are very subtle but in my opinion it was an uncalled traveling violation. Either way, great clip.

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19. 

    GDawg

    August 29, 2022 at 12:32 am

    I guess it’s legal to switch your pivot foot nowadays

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20. 

    Unz Mpiti

    August 31, 2022 at 7:37 am

    Hakeem Olajuwon highlights.

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21. 

    The Nigel Douglas

    September 2, 2022 at 2:09 am

    How nice of them to squeeze some other players into Luka Doncic’s highlight reel lmaooo

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22. 

    Cody Eble

    September 8, 2022 at 4:52 pm

    So everybody gets replays except Sengun?

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23. 

    Tiger Lee

    September 9, 2022 at 3:16 am

    First one is a travel.

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24. 

    bhoj03

    September 10, 2022 at 5:15 pm

    Half of this shit is TRAVELLING. JFC.

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25. 

    Eelco Blaauw

    September 13, 2022 at 2:58 pm

    They did Cam Johnson dirty with that thumbnail

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