Travel called on Zion tonight. Right or wrong call?
November 29, 2022
Looks like a clear gather step into a hop step?
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holy moly what a drive and finish
Personally I wouldn’t call this cuz of the moment and flow in the game
But I can see if you want to call it a travel, depends which one you see as the gather step once I slow down the vid
Both feet leave the ground, its 100% a travel, even by the NBA standards
That’s a pro hop. It’s crazy they called it since that’s like his thing he did all the time
Unfortunately that is a travel
If both feet come down together he is good. When they come down separately, that is a travel. He should lock that play away and keep working on the timing. That jump gives him a lot of added explosion going through the paint.
When I see another star get that call, I’ll consider it a travel. Like AD says, “It’s the inconsistency!”
crab dribble. not a travel
Is this not a jump stop that doesn’t get called 99% of the time?
Yes, it’s a travel. Watch how Zion’s feet land by looking between SGA’s legs. Press pause and drag the slider. You’ll see Zion’s right foot landed before his left did. You can see his left leg swinging forward.
If you watch the baseline angle on the replays on League Pass, you can see that he gathered with both hands as he was stepping down with his right foot; that is the first step. The key here is that he jumped off that foot (which is the correct thing to do off the pivot foot, but the wrong thing to do if you want to take two more steps), but he didn’t execute a jump stop landing on both feet (the jump stop wouldn’t be a travel).
He traveled by taking a second step (his right foot) and then a third step (his left foot). Had he taken a step with his left and then his right, he would have been fine, but he jumped and landed with two steps.
11 comments
holy moly what a drive and finish
Personally I wouldn’t call this cuz of the moment and flow in the game
But I can see if you want to call it a travel, depends which one you see as the gather step once I slow down the vid
Both feet leave the ground, its 100% a travel, even by the NBA standards
That’s a pro hop. It’s crazy they called it since that’s like his thing he did all the time
Unfortunately that is a travel
If both feet come down together he is good. When they come down separately, that is a travel. He should lock that play away and keep working on the timing. That jump gives him a lot of added explosion going through the paint.
When I see another star get that call, I’ll consider it a travel. Like AD says, “It’s the inconsistency!”
crab dribble. not a travel
Is this not a jump stop that doesn’t get called 99% of the time?
Yes, it’s a travel. Watch how Zion’s feet land by looking between SGA’s legs. Press pause and drag the slider. You’ll see Zion’s right foot landed before his left did. You can see his left leg swinging forward.
If you watch the baseline angle on the replays on League Pass, you can see that he gathered with both hands as he was stepping down with his right foot; that is the first step. The key here is that he jumped off that foot (which is the correct thing to do off the pivot foot, but the wrong thing to do if you want to take two more steps), but he didn’t execute a jump stop landing on both feet (the jump stop wouldn’t be a travel).
He traveled by taking a second step (his right foot) and then a third step (his left foot). Had he taken a step with his left and then his right, he would have been fine, but he jumped and landed with two steps.
This is different than taking a gather step plus two steps [like Harden does here in the NBA video rulebook](https://videorulebook.nba.com/archive/legal-play-gather-and-then-takes-2-steps-2/).
Yes, that’s a travel but Jordan used to that all time.