What is travelling? - Detroit Pistons Fan Community

roscoe36 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-27-2007, 05:33 PM

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I was watching the Mav-Warriors game last night. It was sometime in the third quarter, I believe. And the refs whistled Josh Howard at the top of the key for what looked to be a traveling violation. But I wasn't sure. Traveling is weird. There are clear rules that define what makes for traveling in the NBA, but in a game that moves so fast, traveling seems to be defined -- or at least recognized -- by intuition. Often a move just looks like traveling. It's that awkward cognitive dissonance that makes us perk up and say, "No way that was legal."

basketbills · #2 (**permalink**) 04-27-2007, 06:00 PM

A lot of the travelling calls that are made...I don't see.

A lot of the travelling calls that I see....aren't made.

Shaq can drag his pivot foot, shuffle his feet etc. Guys (like Rip) catch a pass and the kind of shuffle their feet or hop as they set theirselves... no call.

...but then a guy makes a quick move that is hardly visible to the naked eye and they get called.

**dba** · #3 (**permalink**) 04-27-2007, 06:09 PM

Right up there with palming, which after watching Nelson last night I realize I clearly don't understand.

mikhail1973 · #4 (**permalink**) 04-27-2007, 07:33 PM

The calls are as refs see or make them be it for traveling or palming or carry. There's a good example of the different baseball umpires. It's all about balls and strikes. One umpire says - some thrown pitches are balls and some are strikes. Another one says - they are nothing until I call them strikes or balls. And that's pretty much how it's been.

TheeTFD · #5 (**permalink**) 04-29-2007, 03:03 PM

The Professor did something on this in the "Inquiring Pistons Fans want to know " thread. Fare warning you'll be more confused after you read it.
I think it has something to do with moving your feet before bouncing the rock. You walked..............

Nemo · #6 (**permalink**) 04-29-2007, 03:35 PM

I've seen Kobe take five steps while carrying the ball, and airline tickets in the other hand, and no travelling call. Some guys just don't get the call.