This. After gather I only saw 2 long steps. Really long steps. This was a perfectly executed Euro-step.
it's my favorite move, sexier than the cross over and jump step combined, manlier than the the quack or crab dribble. i thought kelly pulled a harden and just got out the way so he wouldn't get the foul, which he would been called for surely.
Jeremy felt sorry for the rookie at 3:09 mark lolol <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ULdZRIGEovY?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Okay, it was a travel as you can clearly see he already grabbed the ball with both hands while his right foot was planted.
what? that would be definitive proof if his right foot wasn't on the floor yet. That photo doesn't show when the right foot planted. again, if the right foot is planted before he grabs the ball with both hands, it's not a travel. How does that photo prove when he grabbed the ball vs planting the right foot. you need to move that photo back to show when the right foot *was not* planted.
If you replay the clip in slow-mo, you will notice he grabbed the ball slightly before his right foot was planted, it's almost simultaneous. Then he euro-stepped Ryan Kelly on that play. (I think that's why Ryan Kelly jumped to the wrong side.) In fact, it's a tough call there, I would say 80/20 the refs would call it a travelling violation. Guess he was just lucky on that fastbreak.
I have replayed it and slow-mo/stop mo. I disagree. I see the gather after the right foot planted. I could be wrong, but your still photo proves nothing. We need to see a photo of the split second BEFORE his right foot hits the ground. And this is another reason why I don't think he traveled. Because he was facing a rookie and knew it. There was nothing lucky about him scoring. He wanted to embarrass the rookie. He could have scored many ways, but decided to plan the Euro-step move and embarrass the rookie. You make it sound like the rookie forced him into a travel. lol As ling ling said a few post above: A perfect Euro-step is when you can fool a lot of people to believe it's a travel.
dude...this proves it is not a travel. He does not have two hands on the ball. Awesome photo. You can see the right foot is going to hit at the very same time he gathers. STEP zero. He gets two more steps. That is an awesome photo of a perfectly executed "late gather." Of course he could do it, because he planned it for the rookie.
From my perspective, he picked up his dribble before his right foot was planted, and then the very same time when he fully gathered, his right foot hit the floor. I would say that's step 1, and then to the left another step. I don't know, I could be wrong, but it looks quite close to a travel in my opinion.
I already repped J.Will.Xu for those two photos. Just wanted to say publicly, thanks so much for the effort to post those photos. I asked if someone could post a still photo and you delivered!! so awesome. Did you rip them from your own video? I'll even compromise and call it palming the ball....haha. cheers!
Agree to disagree! haha, I did rip them from my own video, since I couldn't find a clip of better quality on YouTube, I snapped and posted them myself.
Seriously, in a league where officials allow traveling regularly and we are talking about this may or may not be a travel. To me it looks like he picks up his dribble with his right foot down, steps left, right then lays it up.
