Can someone make a gif of the james euro crossover he did to kelly? It was just nasty. also if someone could find a video by chance? Will rep. Greatly appreciated. TIA. EDIT: It was not a travel. Read up on the rule book. He gets two steps after he gathers(holds the ball with BOTH hands or Palms the ball). If he is on one foot when he gathers, that is not considerred a step, thus giving him two more steps. It is so tricky and believed to be a travel because it is called a LATE gather and is similiar to a magic trick because it deceives you and creates an illusion.
it looked like a travel though. He picked it up after he stepped with his right foot, went left and then right. I might be wrong though. http://www.nba.com/video/games/rockets/2014/01/08/0021300526-lal-hou-play4.nba
that shiit was great. Did you see the post game interview? James said "well hes a rookie so i had to teach him a lesson. It was rookie hazing." or something of that nature. Great response and funny stuff.
i was thinking it was in game while watching live. but its hard to tell in the replays. it looks like he crossed over from eft to right hand and grabbed it after his right foot was planted. either way it was still awesome.
no travel. y'all need to study the Euro-step. It's best done with what refs call a "late gather." In this case, Harden's right foot is well out in front but planted *before the gather* (since it's planted prior to the gather he gets two steps), so the next long step is "the first step" (his left foot that Kelly bit on), followed by the second long step to the right that takes him past Kelly and jumps off that. Pros are so good at that late gather. You rarely see college who can do it, so it shocks you into thinking it's a travel, but it isn't.
I know the late gather rule, but even so it looked a lot like a travel. Both hands were on the ball as he was taking the first step with the right. He followed with another left and right, making 3 steps. Still an amazing fake-out, though.
Harden is so shifty and his moves look so deliberate that the refs can't tell a travel when it's on full display for them to call.
I saw the gather after the right foot planted. But a still photo could prove me wrong. I'm just explaining that if the right foot is planted well out in front of you before the gather, that is what Euro-steps are made of, and that's what Pros do better than us mere mortals and college players. The natural dribble is to gather off your back foot (an early gather), it's hard to train your self to gather late after your front foot plants. But if you can pull it off, you still have your two steps. Another way to look at it is Harden was going against a rookie in the open court and knew he was going to score, so he showed off and had plenty of time to plan his legal "late gather" Euro step.
They call it traveling in Europe. Nice that he got away with it. I mean Wade could take 7 steps after all.
Note sure what you're quoting. I can show your videos of NBA refs explaining the "late gather" of a Euro step. The NBA allows 2 steps after the gather. Any planted foot prior to the gather is step 0, which would be Harden's lead right foot. If a still photo shows two hands on the ball prior to the right foot planting, then it's a travel. I'm just saying that I didn't see it that way on slow motion/stop motion replay. People tend to believe the lead foot is always step one, but not if you haven't gathered the ball yet, meaning your dribble is still active.
brilliant. now all we need is one from the back angle that shows kely practically jump 2 feet in the wrong direction haha...
