JsindaA:
You guys do realize that Kobe never established a pivot right? Hop step back and two steps...is not a travel. You don't have two land on two feet in the NBA...yes it's stupid. Even if we WERE going to say it was a travel I can think of AT LEAST 4 or 5 times Ginobili traveled in the second half alone.
THAT... is what I believe to be correct.
When it first happened, I swore we would have heard a whistle, and I was already to to tell my boy 'Yeah, he traveled. Good call.' But no whistle, so Inever said it.
Then after the game, I knew there would be gifs of it, and I was positive that I would see a travel. And the first few times I looked at it, it did look like atravel.
But what he does is dribble behind his back, then take a mini-hop to a spot, pump fake (no pivot has been established), then pivot off his RIGHT. His left footwas back and his right foot was forward, so he pump faked, then brought his left foot forward, keeping his right foot planted as he jumped off both.
It looks like his left foot was his pivot from the beginning, and then he lifted his left foot as he brought it forward to jump off both feet, but his leftwasn't his pivot; he had no pivot. All he did was take a mini-hop backwards and pump-fake.
The most telling thing for me that reveals that it wasn't a travel? Not ONE Spur does the traveling signal. At THAT point in the game, you KNOW they wouldbeen going nuts if he would have traveled. And in case you're thinking 'Probably because they know that it's Kobe, so they didn't even try toget a travel out of the refs': stop it. You know DAMN well they'd complain about a travel if there was one. At that point in the game? Mostdefinitely. And the Lakers would have done the same thing if they thought the Spurs did something foul. You know Kobe's accidental tip-in? I thought atfirst that maybe Duncan tipped it in going over Pau's back... 'over the back'. But then when Pau and Kobe both looked at each other and didn'tmake one plea to the refs at all, I figured 'Well hell, must have been legit, then. Because there's no damn way they'd be that quiet if Duncan didsomething wrong.'
And not one Spur even thinks about looking at the refs. Manu just goes the other way, Duncan just puts his head down to inbound the ball; every Spur is justlike 'Damn.He got us.'
Wrong.
the step back is like a jump stop, hes free to use witchever foot he chooses despite what foot hit the ground first.
put a mill on it.
You would be short a million dollars if you bet.
The step back would be like a jump stop if he landed on both feet at the same time, but he didn"t.
Look at it like this...
If you step into a jump shot off a pass, the foot you took the first step with is automatically your pivot foot. If you step into a pass with your left footthen right, if you move your left foot again that is 3 steps which is a walk. Thats why when I instruct at camps it is a point of emphasis for kids to jumpstop into passes because it gives them more options. Bo Ryan the coach of Wisconson University actually has a dvd that illustrates this.
Why are people still talking about a pivot foot?
Because I needed a break at work
