Yeah, great idea by Lebron to tell the league to take a closer look at his signature move. Hopefully, they'll realize it's a travel every time he does it, and start calling it every time.
To be fair to Lebron, on that play I think the foul was before the travel. Although I think the rule is that the basket shouldn't count if the player either dribbles again or travels before putting up the shot.
Doesn't matter, any time you jump, you've gathered the ball and you can take one more step at maximum
it looked like he took 2 steps, and jumpstopped but landed his feet at two seperate times. Thats a travel
I like LeBron, and love watching him play, but that was a travel. They do miss a lot of traveling calls, but I won't blame them for actually making a correct call. You have to call that. It isn't like calling someone for a touch foul and costing the team the game where you say let the players win the game.
I'm glad he got called for it. I like how 95% of the time he can get away with 4 steps but someone shoves Yao with all their strength and he takes a step to hold himself up, it's a travel.
Anyone who plays basketball in any sort of capacity knows that is a TRAVEL. You jump on the second step, not the third. a hop step, you must land with both feet at the same time. He did neither. Travel.
What? Three steps is traveling. Always. You don't jump on the third step, you jump on the second, otherwise, it's traveling. Whether or not it's always called is a different question, but it's traveling no matter how you look at it. NBA has allowed the integration of the "jump-stop" but that is one step then the jump-stop itself. Basically, the jump-stop counts as one step. Three steps is never allowed.
He even named his signature move, "CRAB DRIBBLE", ROFL!!! http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3812091
Universally that is a travel. That is a travel that the NBA usually lets its players get away with. As far as I am concerned he picked up his dribble and then took three steps. It is the one thing I hate about watching the NBA, the other being flopping.
In the NBA, it is not called that way. I'm not saying what "should" be called, but all players in the NBA get away with the hop step on the 3rd step. Not just LeBron, Wade, Kobe and whoever else people here love to hate. On this particular play, I think LeBron went beyond a hop step.
Clearly a travel, technically the jump stop can be a travel too, you only are alloted 1 and 1/2 steps, not 2.....but most give 2ish... The 2 step travel has gone the way of palming....extinct. DD
