Dear High School + College Basketball. Change This Rule NOW 

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In each of the highlights, a travel was never called. Officials have already adapted to the speed and skill of the present day game. Yes, it needs to change 'officially' in the rulebook, but it begs the question, is traveling being called regularly where it has become an issue at lower levels? From your video evidence, clearly not.

The NBA cares about high scoring games today. That's why they've changed the rules. Higher scoring means more entertainment means more money for revenue from sponsors. They've killed the big man game where the final score sometimes would be 75-63, no that the score during halftine these days.

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Spot on coach! I noticed this as a problem a few weeks back!

My one objection to this is that most of these moves can still be done without traveling according to these rules if you just use different pick up methods and timing. For example, the swing step is almost always a travel in NCAA rules unless you do a single hand over top of the ball pick up to give time for your non swinging foot to leave the ground to avoid being the unintentional pivot. Same thing for a spin move - just use a single hand spin dribble and pick up the ball with the other hand after you get your intended pivot down. I will admit that some of the dunks are really hard to overcome according to these rules because you kinda have to two hand gather on a two legged dunk usually.

Hey, make a video on pick and roll, against different defenses, how to set it up, what roll to use, etc.

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Hi coach can you make a video about how to consistently shoot or drills anything about shooting? I've been working on my shooting for 6 months I can see an improvement but it's only a little I want to improve more! Any tips from the people here?

I play at the D3 level, so our rules are the same as D1 and D2. Last season, my coach had us watch the official training videos and they added the gather step to the rule book.

These moves would be legal in my Middle School league. You get one step, then your pivot. Off your pivot, you can take another step, as long as your pivot foot doesn't touch the ground again, until you get rid of the ball. I don't think it changes to High School.

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coach frikki, your a great basketball coach who’s helped me a lot. i do have to say that your wrong about this one though. the reasons most of these plays aren’t travels is because of when they gather the ball. in most of the clips what you called the first step was before they gathered the ball. what i mean by gathering is both hands on the ball, hand under the ball, or palming it. the steps aren’t counted until they have gathered the ball. if the ball is moving freely below their hand they can take as many steps as they want, and then have their 2 steps. hope you understand.

Please do how to add more spin on a layup or how to hook

gather step in most of yours exemple (not the first one 0:40 wich leed to dunk for instance) is a good point (about 0,05 sec between the last dribble and the first step that's just common sens to allow it, we need to put in in slow motion to see the travel ) but in the way that it is actualy use in the NBA , and regrettably now in the euroleague and fiba , gather step is unfair, players use it like an extra step, even sometimes they took more than 3 step an it's benefits attack a lot , especially for players like giannis etc..

Hello coach, during dribbling practice, do we need to dribble by fingertips only or whole hand,ie, fingertips and palm at a time ?

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in nfhs the rule is the same as nba and fiba, dribble ends when the ball comes to a rest on player's hand, not when player touches the ball after a dribble. ball comes to a rest when the player carry, hold, grab, palm the ball. go to officiating forums officials would allow 1 gather step just like fiba and nba as long as the ball never comes to a rest during the gather step.

I thought u always had 1/2 - 2 steps after picking up dribble.. I can understand if you’re stationary but not with an active dribble… I’m confused.. 🤦🏿‍♂️

Not all FIBA are the same. Here in Brazil we follow something similar to the college bc the refs created the “0 step” (something that doesn’t exist). My idea is to make it like soccer (1 thing in the whole world) and change fiba shot clock at the Hs and college levels bc 24 is too little for people who are developing.

Great video again Coach! I'd like to see a video similar to this one that tackles contentious rules that always cause arguments in pickup and that even refs sometimes get wrong. Oftentimes because the rule is different in different leagues. A few examples: 1) Catching your own air ball: NBA= travel. Other leagues = legal (provided that the ref believes it was a legitimate shot attempt) 2) The good old step through where you lift your pivot before shooting or passing. People incorrectly think you can only lift your pivot while jumping off both feet at the same time. However you're actually allowed to lift your pivot WHILE your non-pivot is still on the ground as long as you shoot or pass before your pivot makes contact with the ground again. It may look like an extra step but it's legal in all leagues. ru-vid.comUgkxHTM6R-ynwKS26PwIwHhQnHzJ-WfXdiNP 3) Recovering a fumble is always legal, even if it was during a shot attempt, or during while trying to gather after dribbling. For example if you're dribbling and try to grab the ball with both hands but it slips you can still recover it (even if it you had touched the ball with both hands). You can even recover a fumble if it requires that you take several steps and would otherwise be a travel. However if you had to displace your pivot to recover the ball you may no longer pivot after recovering it. Obviously the ref determines whether it was a legitimate fumble (as opposed to someone pretending to fumble to gain an advantage). Same in all leagues? videorulebook.nba.com/archive/legal-play-player-fumbles-ball-into-air-and-recovers-it/ 4) Alley-ooping to yourself off the backboard: I think this is legal in the nba. Not sure about the other leagues. 5) Ball bouncing on the side or top of the backboard (multiple times or even rolling on the top of the backboard) and then eventually falling back towards the inbound side: Inbound in all leagues? 6) Ball crossing over the backboard: always a out-of-bounds even if the ball didn't touch any of the supporting infrastructure. 7) Shooting the ball from behind the backboard. I think generally this is generally not allowed but might depend on the league? Maybe it's ok if the ball never travels "directly" behind the backboard 8) You're out of bounds and right before receiving a pass you're able to establish one foot inbounds. The other foot is still in the air. I think you're considered inbounds at this point. You don't need both feet to be inbounds. forum.officiating.com/basketball/23859-how-many-feet-establish.html 9) Saving the ball from going out of bounds and in the process stepping out due to your momentum. Then coming back inbounds and being the first to touch the ball. I think this is ok 10) Stepping out of bounds while dribbling the ball (but not while in in contact with the ball). This maybe be legal if you stepped out of bounds to avoid contact but wouldn't be legal if it was to gain an advantage? 11) Blocked shot: If both the shooter and the defender are in contact with the ball the whole time it's a jump ball. If the defender doesn't make contact with the ball the whole time but the shooter does it's a travel. If the shooter releases the ball (even for a split second) during the block, and grabs it back immediately, it's a new possession. 12) After gathering your dribble the ball makes contact with your defender unintentionally or intentionally (e.g. your moving with both hands and it incidentally makes contact with the defender and you drop it and grab it back immediately. Or you intentionally throw the ball on the opponents legs, back or head). Do you get a second dribble? In the NBA, for the unintentional case you definitely get a second dribble. In the intentional case it's unclear but you probably get a second dribble as well: NBA Rule 10 Section II: "A player may dribble a second time if he lost control of the ball because of: 2. An opponent touching the ball" It's not clear whether "lost control" includes the intentional case but I would argue that it does since you can't predict how the ball will bounce off an opponent, hence you lost control of the ball the moment it touched them, even if you intentionally threw it at them. However a foul will be called if the action is considered "unsportsmanlike" (Judgement call by the ref). I'm sure there are more! Maybe consider doing it in a tier list format (most to least common misconceptions) This one would be a real challenge but man would it helpful to have a single resource to point people to. You have the power to potentially single-handedly put an end to (or at least drastically reduce) recurring pickup disputes that never get resolved 😄.

I’ve noticed most refs let euro steps go but not stepbacks from the 3 , they needa just have the same rules as nba

Isn't the gather, you have to have two hands on the ball? One dribble with ones hand, as long as you don't carry and the ball sticks to that hand, you can have as many steps as you can.

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I totally agree that high school players should have gather steps. Refs need to stop officiating different levels do differently from each other. Let’s just officiate the game of basketball.

A little more documentation is needed here about how steps are counted after the pivot foot is established before a traveling violation occurs. Just because the pivot foot has been established doesn't necessarily mean that these are all traveling violations.

I can only get to a 10 ft net 4 days out of the week the rest I can only play on 9'5 any advice on how to keep developing my shot

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nxt upload when?

fr they need to make it legal for all levels

next video coach

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NBA has been ignoring their rules for decades just to make the game more entertaining, watching back games years ago the officiating was somewhat strict compared to today's it interrupted the game so much. At the end of the day, it's a business first operation, the players are happy to play more freely while getting paid, so it's a win-win for them, who cares about us fans and viewers lmao, they never did no matter how much they pretend to

About damn time someone calls travels. Seen people defend 3 steps for way too long.

But the moves weren't called a a travel in any of the clips

No ref calls these though

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I'm confused I thought the gather step was allowed at all levels. Like it's a common thing done even in hs I see it done all the time and most refs even know what the rule is. How is the gather step a travel if like pretty much no refs at any level call it, is it just a rulebook thing that nobody actually follows because it's ridiculous?

That's why people don't step back in Europe. It is considered travel in there

do any refs actually call this though

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What I can’t stand is the hand under the ball fake shot hesi

It's jail ball I'm not worrying about it

some of the moves shown here aren't necessarily travel under the current rule, if the player jumps on the pivot foot and lands on both feet simultaneously, but yes, agreed that these rules for HS and college should change.

so the players of this generation aren't skilled they just get away with alot more

people who complain about gather steps are old heads or dudes that never actually play ball. It feels so unnatural to just do a 1 and 2 step. The gather step allows for fluidity in playing and making basketball moves.

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you want the rules more lax than they are now and giving defense another disadvantage, in 10 years the nba is gonna be a hand ball league at this point

The reason FIBA followed NBA is to make the sport easier and have more points, so more people would watch. That doesn't mean it should be the way to go. I don't see FIFA changing soccer rules so more people watch the game. Going from two steps to three steps makes the game too easy

I though HS follows FIBA rules? At least our league does

Wow I would expect this take from people who don’t know the game, but it’s surprising to hear it from you. NONE of those examples in the beginning is a travel.

honestly they don't call this shit anyway so...

No, HS and college do not need to change this rule. Permitting extra steps gives the offense a distinct advantage and disadvantages the defense. The game is about balance between the two. FIBA just wants to be like the NBA, which is as fake basketball as you can get.

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this guy is tripping. none of the layups the girls did were travels, and none were called travels. The NBA needs to change their rules. the gather step is ridiculous. Scoring has already been made too easy in the NBA

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The step through has to go thats is a travel people pump fake then go take 2 steps after they stop their dribvble

This is called gather step hence the reason is not called a travel @coachfrikki

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