(Sorry. Can’t spell his name right. You know who I mean.)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1408606000341471233
I count at least 5, maybe 6. Ridiculous.
Also isn’t switching dribbling hands against the rules? It used to get called on me when I played ball back in the day. Has that rule been dropped too?
Maybe 3.
No, switching hands isn’t against the rules, and if it ever was it’s likely never been in your lifetime.
Perhaps you or who ever you claim called it in you don’t understand what the rule regarding double dribbling is.
Or maybe you were playing a different game than basketball? Net ball maybe?
Switching dribbling hands is not against the rules.
In that clip, Antetokounmpo only takes 3 steps or so after he stops dribbling. Furthermore, the NBA is notoriously lax when it comes to traveling anyway. There’ve been many times when players have taken more than 3 steps without ever being penalized.
I count three steps, for sure, once he is clearly palming the ball and no longer dribbling. But, as you note, enforcement of the traveling rule has been really lax in the NBA for decades. It’s a long-standing thing for fans to complain about, but it’s been clear for a long time that anything short of tucking the ball in your arm like a running back and sprinting down the court isn’t going to get called.
The tweet literally spells his name for you. You choose to be a jerk over just copying and pasting it to your title?
Switching hands mid dribble is legal. By NBA and FIBA rules this is a “zero step” on his right when the ball comes to rest in both hands, then left the left becomes his pivot foot (one), then launches off his right for the layup (two).
It would be illegal by NFHS and NCAA rules which would count the gather step on his right as his pivot. It would become a travel when his right returns to the floor before giving up possession.
I guess the calm acceptance of travelling is one of the reasons I can’t watch the NBA anymore. I’d prefer a game that calls it consistently after two steps. Of course I can’t watch MLB anymore either, especially since they started that “free runner on 2B in extras” BS, so I’m reduced to the NFL, which I stopped watching a few decades for reasons I can no longer recall. I wonder what the NFL did to offend me? Probably some nonsense like this. Oh, well, I was never their demographic anyway (watched games on free TV, never bought merch, rarely bought junk they advertised on TV).
Ok thanks for the update.
If you want to know about traveling, learn from an expert…
Switching hands while dribbling has never been against the rules, at least as far back as the 50’s. Watch some old Bob Cousy games. What Aentetokounmpo did in the video is legal and I don’t think it would have been called traveling in the 80’s unless the refs had been so surprised by how fast he got to the rim. I love Giannis’ game and he’s my favorite non-Celtics player. Almost every game he has a play or two that I have to rewind and rewatch multiple times to figure out how he did it.
There are a few things I don’t like about the modern NBA but with the rule changes and ascendancy of the three-point shot there has never been a higher need for every player to be a skilled, especially in shooting.
Compare Magic Johnson and Ben Simmons. They have similar skill-sets: points guards with other-worldly passing skills in 6-10 bodies saddled with shaky outside shooting. Simmons might have had a more impactful rookie year, which is saying a lot because Magic helped his team win a championship. But Simmons poor shooting skills has made him a liability at times, something you could not say about Magic (although he cost his team a few important wins early in his career).
It’s called a crossover dribble. It’s not a violation.
Once he picks up his dribble, Giannis Antetokounmpo takes three steps, maybe two, on his way to the layup:
(1) Two dribbles w/ his right hand while he steps 4 steps, left right left right (feet)
(2) Crosses over to dribble once with his left hand — one left step
(3) Picks up his dribble while he is stepping with his right foot
(4) Two steps, left and right, to get to the basket
(5) Layup
Not a violation. If three steps are counted by the ref it would be a borderline call.
No harm, no foul. It’s all good in the NBA.
That’s how I would have described it also; well done.
Roger, what are you talking about?
No, he doesn’t take “at least” five or six steps after the dribble. He takes three, counting the Zero Step. That is not travelling according to the rules.
No, it’s not against the rules to switch hands in a dribble, nor was it ever, at least not in your lifetime or mine.
I’m not sure how much you ever watched it if you thought it was against the rules to switch hands in a dribble.