As a kid, and still an adult, it always baffled me how professionals got more leniency with violating their craft by traveling than 9 year olds in a public league
Fr if you dribble with both hands in jr league they always whistle on the kids, shoot HEY he don’t know better let him learn how to dribble. While grown men know they fucking up and get millions for the refs to be Ray Charles 😂😂😂
"So he took a few steps." "Hey! It's the NBA" That sums this entire vid up perfectly. A player's likelihood of getting called for travelling is inversely proportionate to their star power.
@@beegtea No, Morris used his second step as his pivot foot which is a clear traveling violation. But I hate that "that's every James Harden stepback", because of course Harden traveled from time to time, but usually his stepback is just a perfectly timed gather. But as far as I know all these scenes were legit traveling violations.
Not with 2 comments and less than 1k likes he doesnt, its a good comment but he didnt "win" the internet. In fact, I loved his comment but your comment single handedly ruined his comment@@matthewmehegan3475
I mean they aren’t going to constantly stop the game if you’re making tiny steps while standing still. It’s like when they play advantage in football (soccer🤓)
The fact that a guy can take FOUR steps before putting up a shot, but a finger nail scrape gets called as a foul, while the FOUR steps is overlooked, is just insane.
@@tommalouf9197 I don't know so please inform me: how is that so? I have always been told that you can't take more than two steps. Anything three and more is a travel, no?
Gotta love the announcers at 0:46 and 1:25, as a football fan the days of Al Michaels calling out poor officiating with brutal honesty are gone and the NBA does it a lot better
3 step ones make sense, but some of the ones like Bradley Beal and Westbrook are INSANE! Only thing it could be is adrenaline taking over. Or they had a designed pass or play they were thinking about and when it came time to make that pass or play they had in their head, the opponents defense shifted and they didn't mentally adjust to it quick enough. The egregious ones are truly baffling, though.
Right, but unlike the rest of us they also learned they could get away with it. Thus removing the mental block and making them act this is a dunk contest. We weren't allowed to get away with this crap in highschool and they're out here running with the ball like its a football game
I love the announcers. That one guy saying “he traveled and threw a bad shot” or whatever. These are my new favorite kind of videos to watch. They’re so baffling insane
With a ref looking right at him I bet 900 trillion dollars that I never had don’t have or will ever make along with possibly undiagnosed Keratoconus that I can ref better than these “professionals” while advocating for the 3 steps into a shot to be implemented as part of the game for example if a player takes the zero step or 3 full steps into a shot attempt right after the 3 steps, I would advocate for that to not be called a travel, if there’s no shot immediately after a zero step and the 2 steps after that or 3 full steps with no shot immediately after that, I would call travel for that and anything more than 3 steps (only based on hypotheticals) I don’t want to ref the league but I know I’d win that bet if that was the case
@@seeker296 ..... so? lmfao the fact you think this actually means anything is a pretty fair tell you've never watched a moment of real basketball in your life.
It's a business, not a sport, because the rules are based on profitability and not values or competition. Whatever gets fans more involved and brings in more money will always take precedence
@kylezo That's a shit take. A lot of teams dont win often. Just like any other sport. People don't watch sports so they can see players cheat. That's actually a braindead take. You can also watch most games for free. People buy tickets for the stadium experience, not so they can see some team score. And if one team travels a lot and wins, the losing team is gonna be pissed. Allowing people to break the rules is just as bad for money as it is good for money. Plus if this is the case, people would have just been traveling for the history of the sport, but they haven't been doing that. You genuinely sound like someone who's never stepped foot in any stadium. "They let them cheat because it's about money." What the actual fuck are you talking about dude 😂😂
@@zinzi571 Carrying, travelling, double dribbles happen so often in NBA games the commentators have to make light of it to tell the viewers that they realize the game is lax on rules. More lax than a developmental game of 12-year-old girls basketball.
Sorry the russ one wasn't that egregious. Russ was distracted, very clearly walked with he ball and got called for it. He didn't make some cool play after taking 7 steps to get a standing ovation from the crowd.
I saw one a couple years ago when Harden actually took six or seven steps back before launching a long three, and the refs just let it go. It's absolutely infuriating.
@@wouldanyoneelseliketobehea7068 Ha! I honestly don't remember if he made it. I just remember the anchors on SportsCenter showing the footage and laughing about it.
I remember that fool moving his pivot twice, starting a dribble, stopping, moving his pivot a third time, then intentionally jumping into someone's arm and throwing up a trashball, then getting the call in his favor. I absolutely despise his "style".
Having played the game actively and also as ref, this is brutal to watch. When you really know the game you just instantly see a travel, it's not a matter of maybe you didn't see it because it was subtle. no, as ref the closest one always watches the person with the ball in the hand while the other 1 or 2 or however many are watching surriounding players doing illegal stuff. The moment the player with the ball travels i blow my whistle and call it, it's so blatant once your mind is conditioned to recognize it... Edit: That's why you see the bench calling the traveling. Cause everyone involved in the game see it instantly !
Even the fans will always see it. It's instinct. As a coach Sometimes I wonder what yall ref smoke before coming to games like seriously? They be acting like cops watching black people peacefully cross the road instead of focusing on criminals doing the real thing right beside them. "Like seriously dawg, he's carrying the ball right in front of your eyes. How can you not see it?" and you get a tech for that.
What is the rule for lay-ups? As a casual American, I just never ever understood it. Almost every lay-up looks like a travel to me, the video references like maybe you can get 3 steps" but is there an official definition for lay-up allowed walking.
@@MichaelQ-iv7pt Yes, once you place one hand under the ball ( carrying it) or take it into two hands you can lift one foot of the ground and then the other foot and then make a throw or lay-up attempt or pass the ball. I guess you could also just stop moving but you aren't allowed to move any foot anymore so you'd be pressured close by defense. *Edit: the sometimes tough to decide comes when a player is moving fast and maybe transitions from dribbling to carrying the ball right as he lifts a foot. It's rare to be confused if you've seen it 10'000+ times. There's slight difference in rules between NBA and rest of the world tho, when you stand on both feet, and you make a step, the ball must hit the floor before you plant then moving foot on the ground ( official basketball rules), but in the NBA you only have to make tha ball touch the ground before your second foot touches the ground, essentially making the first powerfull move to get past your opponent much easier ( more TV entertainment) in the NBA. Also why the US is not dominating the world in Basketball tournaments anymore*
@@MichaelQ-iv7pt, once you bring a second hand to the ball you can take one step and then you MUST leave the floor to shoot. Taking a second step without shooting or passing turns it into a travel.
I love the announcers talking on Steph's Harden impression about how that's every single Harden step-back three. And also when they say, "Hey, it's the NBA" everyone knows travels rarely get called unless there's like 5 steps in there.
Well yes and no They will most times call a real travel a travel But what harden and Steph and most players do with a "gather step" is allowed in the NBA rulebook.
The difference between Steph and Harden is Curry took 3 steps after gathering the ball in both hands. Harden took 2 after gathering, but took about 5 before which looks like it's a travel but it isn't according to the rules.
As a kid i always tried to be careful and always kept in the back of my head not to travel. Turns out it was costing my performance greatly whether street or pro because apparently no one gives a damn
When I was a kid playing basketball, I never quite got a hang of dribbling. I always was too afraid of traveling. Seems like I should not have cared that much.
I don't really watch basketball, so I was like "wait... that's against the rules too, right?" so glad to find I'm not the only one who saw it @@xtra_1807
This sums up what to me has been the biggest problem with the NBA these past 10, 15 years; the officiating. It gets even worse when it comes to fouls and how they deal with flopping. People are literally rewarded for falling down on purpose.
The NFL has the same issue. A legendary QB like Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes gets looked at the wrong way when being sacked and the defense gets a roughing the passer flag. However, when a QB is having a bad season and being attacked by the media like Russell Wilson last year, the defense can make a false start to get to him, pick him up, and slam him to the ground on his head and the refs call NOTHING. I hate it.
@@DontActuallyWannaDiethey actually started calling carries this last season but the players obviously complained about it. JP and Ja do it all the time.
@@Set_Your_Handlle ig·no·rant /ˈiɡnərənt/ adjective lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated. I think you’re here to embarrass yourself Joe. I think that’s what it is? Why are you okay with being idiotic so loudly and publicly? What happened to shame?
@@Set_Your_Handllewhat’s wrong with his use of ignorance there. The NBA refs seems to be ignoring traveling and double dribbling which is two of the most important rules of basketball
The Carmelo seven steps into the absolute brick 3 is iconic 😂 also D Wade was low key slick about scoochin that pivot foot forward I wouldn't be surprised if there were more clips of it
As a huge Wade fan - definitely, dude got away with a lot of foot shuffling (though far from the only one who did it). People wondering how the refs miss this stuff, the refs are mostly watching hands for fouls in these situations where someone is stationary on a pivot foot.
The first guy I ever saw do that and get away with it all the time was Allan Houston. It's a great cheat move to use in pickup and 1-on-1 cuz most people don't notice it and it allows you to get enough room to get around a defender pretty reliably on a straight-line drive.
@@user-yi9hz3or2t from my perspective, if the player dont travel he has a range of predefined plays that can follow - which makes the defense more aware of certain situations to guard. If you travel you break this. You get in a zone where "anything goes", which makes even harder to prepare your defense for.
If you watch games, you know it’s not a secret by any stretch of the definition. In the Lakers vs Nuggets game just 2 hours before, commentator talked about travels called in college that wouldn’t be and wasn’t in the NBA.
@@user-yi9hz3or2t so why can’t you just carry the ball the entire length of the court then? Why is it a rule at all? Got to learn the history to understand the rules. You learn why some rules are justified and some are BS.
There's so much favoritism given to players when they're on the offense. They let them get away with violating the rudimentary rules of basketball, on a minute by minute basis.
I'll never forgive James Harden for making that double step back move and I'll never forgive the NBA for not doing anything about it Edit: This is a satirical comment to all you bozos taking it way too seriously in the replies
Yeah, I remember seeing a video about the "zero" step which depends on where your hand is on the ball. I think as soon as your hand is in control of the lower half is when travel steps start counting.
The NBA might as well change the rule from 3 steps to 4 steps, but enforce it very strictly. That way, the scoring doesn't need to go down (which the NBA hates), and there would be a clearer distinction between a travel and non-travel.
Harden don't even travel that much. The Ricky Rubio one was def a travel but most other times he's mastered the timing of the gather step so he essentially gets 3 steps instead of 2. On Curry's he BARELY gathered right before the should've been "0 step" so it was a travel. It's close and it would've been fine to not call it but it was a travel when you take your time to look at it.
@@joeasuncion2891 People can explain it away like that all they like, and sure it may not be technically a travel by NBA rules, but anyone who has grown up playing basketball knows that taking 3 steps doesn't feel right and should be a travel
As a kid, back in the 90''s-00's, In Europe we used to say that in the NBA you were allowed 3 steps & everyone believed it to be true to their hearts... Today is even worse, wow.
Only 2 steps allowed in the NBA. I have no idea why people think that a foot that is already on the floor when the dribble ends should be considered a step. A dribble doesn't end at the last point the ball touches the floor...it ends when the player gains control of the ball and gathers it (two hands, against the body, or carried with a hand or part of the hand underneath the ball).
@@nathanrogers1793He has his gathering step, then one right and one left and that's his pivot when he stops. You can call a travel for his pivot moving while he stops but a tiny bit of movement is not often called.
@@Boerkreeelis gathering step? yes the one he caught the ball on but if you look he clearly catches it and its a gather step but then takes 3 more steps
@@nathanrogers1793 He has his left foot already planted before his hand makes contact with the ball. His next step is the gathering step, which is with his right foot. He then puts another step with his left and stops, using that left as his pivot. At no point are there 3 steps, thus no travel. You can call the travel for his pivot foot because it moves quite a bit but it's certainly not 3 steps. This is the definition of the gather, and traveling, for your info: A player who gathers the ball while progressing may (a) take two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball or (b) if he has not yet dribbled, one step prior to releasing the ball to start his dribble. A player who gathers the ball while dribbling may take two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball. The first step occurs when a foot, or both feet, touch the floor after the player gathers the ball. The definition of a gather is as such: For a player who receives a pass or gains possession of a loose ball, the gather is defined as the point where the player gains enough control of the ball to hold it, change hands, pass, shoot, or cradle it against his body. For a player who is in control of the ball while dribbling, the gather is defined as the point where a player does any one of the following: Puts two hands on the ball, or otherwise permits the ball to come to rest, while he is in control of it; Puts a hand under the ball and brings it to a pause; Otherwise gains enough control of the ball to hold it, change hands, pass, shoot, or cradle it against his body. Morant has his foot planted already before receiving the ball, hence that cannot be that gathering step. His next step, which he does with the right, is his gathering step. He is now deemed in control of the ball and can take two steps from here without dribbling. So he could even take another step with his left foot, making his right the pivot, and still not be called for traveling. So instead of a travel with 3 steps, he actually only had 1.
I'm not a basketball fan and much less a basketball player, but I always found it so funny when playing pick up with some more avid players that they always, and I mean always, just call travel on whatever they feel like and then take 12 steps for a layup or something and claim it was clean. Such a weird rule.
Street ball is a huge toss up unless you've got a group of good regulars. You'll find some of thinnest skin people you've ever seen in your life who think they should be able to get away with anything and want to fight you for calling them out, but then will be the first person to be calling others out. Fucking fragile ego babies.
That one’s not actually a travel, still a bad shot tho. His hand was behind the ball when he took those shuffle steps before shooting meaning he still “had a dribble” since he hadn’t picked up the ball. You can take any number of steps while you “have a dribble.” If his hand was under the ball it would’ve been a travel, but it was just a janky clean play.
@@aaronflowers8881 The Euro step, two-step, or long lateral is a basketball move in which an offensive player picks up their dribble, takes a step in one direction, and then quickly takes a second step in another direction. It is intended to allow the offensive player to evade a defender and attack the basket.
All these prolific scorers like harden, curry, LeBum, KD, etc all have much easier shots than any player in the past did. It’s easy to get separation when you’re double jumping backwards every play like a video game character!
I don't know how they let Harden get away with picking the ball up and taking like four steps back. I don't know what's more annoying the fact that they barely call it or the people who defend it.
You bozo the reason they "barely call it" and "people defend it" is because ITS 100% ALLOWED in the official NBA rulebook. If it makes you mad then that's fine but its not against the rules whatsoever and that's why tons of good players do stuff similar.
As a ref, the reason these calls are missed is that we’re primarily taught to ref the defence first. It’s difficult to look at both at the same time and catch everything.
I remember watching an USA vs Spain where a player (i think it was Durant) started to travel nearly half court after a pass from a rebound to make a dunk and every single spanish player started to call the bullshit but the refs didn't invalidate the play...lol Those were easily some solid 7-8 steps.
Much as I liked playing basketball, this is why I could never play it competitively. Can’t touch someone with the ball, but they can bump the defense. Can’t travel, but “a few” steps is okay. Full court press getting called as fouls. So much of basketball depends on what the refs consider okay or not that you’re almost a sucker for trying to stick to the rules to the letter.
Lord this is too funny!!! The fact that the stars really get away with it is funny and they know they got away with it their reactions are golden 😂 that Westbrook walk is the most crazy thing ever dude was like why are y’all stopping play I’m running the offense
The fact that in the 60s, they are not even allowed to place their hands on the side of the ball to this lol Them old players must be really bitter by this
Dude i played ball just 15 years ago and the coaches were killing us with suicide runs every time your palm would go under the ball or even just close to it... that shit was so hard especially for a PG...and running sprints with the ball... god damn.. Can you imagine a modern day player touching the ball only from the upper side? No. To me they carry the ball all the time lol
I'm an old amateur player. I got to the point where I just counted three steps on D just to avoid arguing with retards. That started mid Kobe era around 2005.
It's why I can't slander the yesteryear eras. Sure you can argue there's more talent today, but they had less teams. And to top it off like you stated about the rules. I heard it was with assists as well, even one dribble could cancel an assist tally
do u guys not understand that it's not just from when the ball last bounced its from when the ball is picked up i.e. when you grab it with 2 hands or your begin carrying it. The last 1 or 2 stutter steps you might call a travel in that play but its not that noticeable.
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As a kid, and still an adult, it always baffled me how professionals got more leniency with violating their craft by traveling than 9 year olds in a public league
Fr if you dribble with both hands in jr league they always whistle on the kids, shoot HEY he don’t know better let him learn how to dribble. While grown men know they fucking up and get millions for the refs to be Ray Charles 😂😂😂
9 year olds can't do fancy dunks. If the dunk is great, we can ignore that travel that led up to it...
because a young kid can still learn not to travel. An NBA player not anymore 🙂
@@andytraiger4079 I mean, there were multiple times when a player travelled, wasn't called, and there was no dunk.
@@andytraiger4079a dunk can't be considered fancy if you run 5 steps to pull it off, that's just cringe.
"So he took a few steps."
"Hey! It's the NBA"
That sums this entire vid up perfectly. A player's likelihood of getting called for travelling is inversely proportionate to their star power.
no travel on that play, just a step through.
@@beegteasay sike right now?
@@beegtea No, Morris used his second step as his pivot foot which is a clear traveling violation. But I hate that "that's every James Harden stepback", because of course Harden traveled from time to time, but usually his stepback is just a perfectly timed gather. But as far as I know all these scenes were legit traveling violations.
Sums up why the nba is dying.
1:52
Westbrook nonchalantly strolling down the floor like he forgot he was holding a basketball then can’t believe the travel call 😂
In a different angle, Steph asks him what he was thinking. Russ then replies "idk" without even looking at him.
It’s cuz he did forget he was holding a basketball
@@lezbonesLmfao
@@differentperspectivesports4016I remember that 😂 Curry is walking towards him with the most confused face just saying "what are you doing bruh?"
Didn’t Curry do the same thing recently but never got called?
3:25-3:35 got me rolling. The facial expressions, camera zooms, perfect cut ending
He was making eye contact rhe whole time, just to prove he'd get away with it
This lebron clip will always kill me 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Lebron walking like he’s in the cereal aisle
@@crunkler404lmaoo
Im surprised the referee didnt say stfu unknown white boy! Its Lebron!
"If you take steps fast enough and tiny enough, the ref won't notice." - Sun Tzu
Hahahahahahaha!! You win the internet.
Not with 2 comments and less than 1k likes he doesnt, its a good comment but he didnt "win" the internet. In fact, I loved his comment but your comment single handedly ruined his comment@@matthewmehegan3475
😂😂
I mean they aren’t going to constantly stop the game if you’re making tiny steps while standing still. It’s like when they play advantage in football (soccer🤓)
Nothin But Actors
"How many steps did Paul George take here? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7."
Hahaha I thought I misheard that
where'd 6 go
@@Minizu4it travelled to Memphis
@@georgechiras5755 Good one
“He took one dribble from half court” had me rolling
The other good one was "I didn't know if he was going to the basket or Mississippi." LOL
that killed me too
i almsot died when i heard that lmao@@germanstudent06
Pretty much the majority of them lmao
That made me laugh
"players are so skilled thats why scoring is up so much"
Right. Has nothing to do with being able to just run with the ball now.
The fact that a guy can take FOUR steps before putting up a shot, but a finger nail scrape gets called as a foul, while the FOUR steps is overlooked, is just insane.
people need to learn the rules cause half of these were legal moves
@@tommalouf9197 That means half were not. So go learn the rules
@@tommalouf9197 I don't know so please inform me: how is that so? I have always been told that you can't take more than two steps. Anything three and more is a travel, no?
Dude, your sentence structure hurts my eyes. Just say “It’s insane that...” in the beginning of the sentence 🤦♂️
Here: “It’s insane that four steps can be overlooked while a fingernail scrape gets called.”
That’s infinitely better. Thank you me.
Can we get refs missing calls but they get more obvious?
That video would continue until the end of time
that would be the entirety of basketball from 2015 all the way up until this year
Or increasingly more egregious
KD stepping outta bounds gotta be no.1
The Tatum foul on Lebron definitely makes the list
“I didn’t know if he was going to the rim or Mississippi” 😂😂😂
This goes in the top ten of best things I've ever heard
I laughed so freaking hard at that lol
My favorite
He skipped on the first 😂
when is that
Gotta love the announcers at 0:46 and 1:25, as a football fan the days of Al Michaels calling out poor officiating with brutal honesty are gone and the NBA does it a lot better
The most outragous part of this video is how many weren't called.
Hence the title of the video
As the announcer said: "Hey, it's the NBA."
You could make a highlight reel of travels in just one NBA game.
IDK about that Westbrooks was horrindous
They move so fast that it's difficult to notice - Maybe we need better AI cameras and Robot Refs 🤖🚨
What’s even funnier about the travel at 5:20 is Kawhi calmly and politely removing the hand placement from his teammate 😆
lmao 🤣
he always sees himself better than anyone else
KawhAI does not compute leg grabbing.
😂😂😂😂
@@benitofranklyn4237 he just doesnt like getting touched
The double dribbles/travels are just weird to me. Once I learned not to do it. It just feels like a mental block in your head to never do it again.
3 step ones make sense, but some of the ones like Bradley Beal and Westbrook are INSANE! Only thing it could be is adrenaline taking over. Or they had a designed pass or play they were thinking about and when it came time to make that pass or play they had in their head, the opponents defense shifted and they didn't mentally adjust to it quick enough. The egregious ones are truly baffling, though.
You can feel travels in your body it don’t even feel right, that’s why luka was laughing in this clip
That’s also why entire benches/the floor reacts. Millions of reps of the literal same exact thing and they subconsciously see it so clearly.
Right, but unlike the rest of us they also learned they could get away with it. Thus removing the mental block and making them act this is a dunk contest. We weren't allowed to get away with this crap in highschool and they're out here running with the ball like its a football game
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist8Amen
1:26 -He took a few steps, come on -hey, it's NBA. Best summary
3:14 "I didn't know if he was going to the rim or Mississippi." I'm dead 💀
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Bassmaster classic catches but they get increasingly bigger
80s nba will dominate followed by 70s
1. Malace at the palace
The footage quality will get worse and worse as the video goes on lol
Most of the footage will be late 80s Detroit Pistons then end with more Pistons Malace at the Palace lolllllll
C’mon Cosh, boys been waiting
“He took one dribble from half court” had me dying 😂
So you were going into the state of actual death? okay buddy
@@Iamveryliteral clever with the user name, well done 😂
"I thought he was gonna go to Mississippi" 😂🤣😭
I thought this comment was a joke, but yeah. That was one dribble.
@@Iamveryliteralif you're going to be pedantic we're all moving through time towards our deaths so they were actually dying
3:23 yea 2+2 equals 4💀
That Westbrook travel was the funniest one 😂😂 I still remember the memes 🤣🤣🤣
@@ItsFlanamanI think about this every now and then 😂 Mans legit just did not have an answer 💀
Pro point guards do that in frequently in practice lol
his face at 5:38 LMAO. hes looking at the ref like why tf did u call that ???
How to average a triple double in 10 easy steps 😂
Run, Forest!
Klay's own team making fun of him had me dying 🤣🤣
That was hilarious.
Cooked him
@@dannyhernandez265 Jesus saves
@@colmdoherty767 Jesus loves everyone
@@Babytiger2311 that’s not what your mother said last night
Igoudala's reaction to Thompson's travel always gets me
Its Mike Conley not Thomson
@@bolbol3206no its Thompson stupid
@@bolbol3206he had reactions to both
bro snitched on his own teammate 🤣
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I love the announcers. That one guy saying “he traveled and threw a bad shot” or whatever. These are my new favorite kind of videos to watch. They’re so baffling insane
And the officials don't call it most of the time 😂
And they still are the officials to this day. Safest job ever 😂
@@RH-hz9ly 500 000 $ per year, best job in the world
@@twist7533 yea low risk of getting fired as well even if you messed up
of course they dont, its the nba
@@twist7533 gotta pay extra to keep them from squealing
2:00 Wade manages to Travel 5 Seperate times in just 4 seconds.
It's actually impressive
With a ref looking right at him I bet 900 trillion dollars that I never had don’t have or will ever make along with possibly undiagnosed Keratoconus that I can ref better than these “professionals” while advocating for the 3 steps into a shot to be implemented as part of the game for example if a player takes the zero step or 3 full steps into a shot attempt right after the 3 steps, I would advocate for that to not be called a travel, if there’s no shot immediately after a zero step and the 2 steps after that or 3 full steps with no shot immediately after that, I would call travel for that and anything more than 3 steps (only based on hypotheticals) I don’t want to ref the league but I know I’d win that bet if that was the case
To be fair they're essentially pushing him
@@seeker296 ..... so?
lmfao the fact you think this actually means anything is a pretty fair tell you've never watched a moment of real basketball in your life.
D wade was sliding like he was in 2k lmao.
@@broski9422lol I'd take that bet any day
That Westbrook travel never stops being funny
Its not just funny, its effin hilarious. The dude was talking and walking...LOL
ha ha
He's done it a ton. I don't get hung up on travels, but Westbrook and Harden are both masters at getting away with it, lol
he literally walked to half court before he dribbled lmao
Technically with enough time anything's hilarity could fade away
1:00. He faked the ref 3 times.
Traveling, double dribble, and carrying have enabled a lot of things in the NBA. Carrying maybe is the worst.
It's a business, not a sport, because the rules are based on profitability and not values or competition. Whatever gets fans more involved and brings in more money will always take precedence
Carrying is definitely the worst.. it happens so often that I almost don't register it anymore.
@kylezo That's a shit take. A lot of teams dont win often. Just like any other sport. People don't watch sports so they can see players cheat. That's actually a braindead take. You can also watch most games for free. People buy tickets for the stadium experience, not so they can see some team score. And if one team travels a lot and wins, the losing team is gonna be pissed. Allowing people to break the rules is just as bad for money as it is good for money. Plus if this is the case, people would have just been traveling for the history of the sport, but they haven't been doing that. You genuinely sound like someone who's never stepped foot in any stadium. "They let them cheat because it's about money." What the actual fuck are you talking about dude 😂😂
@@zinzi571 Carrying, travelling, double dribbles happen so often in NBA games the commentators have to make light of it to tell the viewers that they realize the game is lax on rules. More lax than a developmental game of 12-year-old girls basketball.
Carrying is completely out of hand and has been for decades.
1:08 When the travel so blatant your own team clowning you 😂😂
And made the defender look like a FOOL 😂😂😂
We all knew Russ would be at the end😂
I didn’t. James
Sorry the russ one wasn't that egregious. Russ was distracted, very clearly walked with he ball and got called for it. He didn't make some cool play after taking 7 steps to get a standing ovation from the crowd.
the warriors were in his head
@@macaron3141592653 wtf are you talking about. It's the most egregious travel in the history of the NBA.
I thought it would have been the one with Lebron dude where there's like 50 steps and the dude just points and yells 😂
3:18 - "he skipped on the first"
I saw one a couple years ago when Harden actually took six or seven steps back before launching a long three, and the refs just let it go. It's absolutely infuriating.
You have to wonder how many points would be taken off his career total if those had been called.
But did he make it
@@wouldanyoneelseliketobehea7068 Ha! I honestly don't remember if he made it. I just remember the anchors on SportsCenter showing the footage and laughing about it.
@@kevinhouse4376can u find the clip I wanna see it
I remember that fool moving his pivot twice, starting a dribble, stopping, moving his pivot a third time, then intentionally jumping into someone's arm and throwing up a trashball, then getting the call in his favor. I absolutely despise his "style".
Having played the game actively and also as ref, this is brutal to watch. When you really know the game you just instantly see a travel, it's not a matter of maybe you didn't see it because it was subtle. no, as ref the closest one always watches the person with the ball in the hand while the other 1 or 2 or however many are watching surriounding players doing illegal stuff. The moment the player with the ball travels i blow my whistle and call it, it's so blatant once your mind is conditioned to recognize it...
Edit: That's why you see the bench calling the traveling. Cause everyone involved in the game see it instantly !
Even the fans will always see it. It's instinct. As a coach Sometimes I wonder what yall ref smoke before coming to games like seriously? They be acting like cops watching black people peacefully cross the road instead of focusing on criminals doing the real thing right beside them. "Like seriously dawg, he's carrying the ball right in front of your eyes. How can you not see it?" and you get a tech for that.
What is the rule for lay-ups? As a casual American, I just never ever understood it. Almost every lay-up looks like a travel to me, the video references like maybe you can get 3 steps" but is there an official definition for lay-up allowed walking.
@@MichaelQ-iv7pt
Yes, once you place one hand under the ball ( carrying it) or take it into two hands you can lift one foot of the ground and then the other foot and then make a throw or lay-up attempt or pass the ball.
I guess you could also just stop moving but you aren't allowed to move any foot anymore so you'd be pressured close by defense.
*Edit: the sometimes tough to decide comes when a player is moving fast and maybe transitions from dribbling to carrying the ball right as he lifts a foot. It's rare to be confused if you've seen it 10'000+ times. There's slight difference in rules between NBA and rest of the world tho, when you stand on both feet, and you make a step, the ball must hit the floor before you plant then moving foot on the ground ( official basketball rules), but in the NBA you only have to make tha ball touch the ground before your second foot touches the ground, essentially making the first powerfull move to get past your opponent much easier ( more TV entertainment) in the NBA. Also why the US is not dominating the world in Basketball tournaments anymore*
You've got no future in the NBA? :)
@@MichaelQ-iv7pt, once you bring a second hand to the ball you can take one step and then you MUST leave the floor to shoot. Taking a second step without shooting or passing turns it into a travel.
I love the announcers talking on Steph's Harden impression about how that's every single Harden step-back three. And also when they say, "Hey, it's the NBA" everyone knows travels rarely get called unless there's like 5 steps in there.
Well yes and no
They will most times call a real travel a travel
But what harden and Steph and most players do with a "gather step" is allowed in the NBA rulebook.
The difference between Steph and Harden is Curry took 3 steps after gathering the ball in both hands. Harden took 2 after gathering, but took about 5 before which looks like it's a travel but it isn't according to the rules.
And curry held 13 in with his hands indicating he was harden lol
The step back is really hard to ref because it's all about how they perceived the gather. I don't think either step back was a travel
@@justinh524 its a dang travel period
This guys didn’t travel, they run a marathon😂💀
As a kid i always tried to be careful and always kept in the back of my head not to travel. Turns out it was costing my performance greatly whether street or pro because apparently no one gives a damn
Yeah basketball is kinda scammy
@unitthecat6952 its bc refs are more concerned about calling fouls than travels so they dont look for travels
5:18 never ceases to be funny when your teammates are the ones reacting to your travel lol
1:05 they even get klay
@@dirtcollectorwhy they narc on their teammate?
@@kingj6477 idk i guess they find it funny
You can see who was new to the spurs and who had been there for a while. Only the new guys showed personality 😂
Those made this even funnier lmao
I love how some travels are so blatant even the home crowd gasps.
they don't call traveling or carrying much anymore. esp for star players- you know who I'm talking about
When I was a kid playing basketball, I never quite got a hang of dribbling. I always was too afraid of traveling.
Seems like I should not have cared that much.
your right and i bet nearly evryone you played against was traveling their asses off
Same here. One of the reasons why the NBA is a total joke, just going to ignore one of the most important rules of the game.
Same I still can't dribble
I feel that.
No, you should have practiced dribbling like everyone else
Those double dribbles were disturbing. Every time I see one it feels like I'm going insane
You believed you were in a state of mind which prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction; seriously mentally ill?
lmao
The traveling is crazy but the double dribble at 5:01 would literally make we walk off the court
insane
I thought I was crazy
I don't really watch basketball, so I was like "wait... that's against the rules too, right?" so glad to find I'm not the only one who saw it @@xtra_1807
Agreed. Wtf is that 😂😂😂.
There was a double dribble two clips in a row
"It happens all the time in the NBA, we just don't call it." 🤣🤣🤣
This sums up what to me has been the biggest problem with the NBA these past 10, 15 years; the officiating. It gets even worse when it comes to fouls and how they deal with flopping. People are literally rewarded for falling down on purpose.
Lebron James is a master of it.
The NFL has the same issue. A legendary QB like Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes gets looked at the wrong way when being sacked and the defense gets a roughing the passer flag. However, when a QB is having a bad season and being attacked by the media like Russell Wilson last year, the defense can make a false start to get to him, pick him up, and slam him to the ground on his head and the refs call NOTHING. I hate it.
@@DontActuallyWannaDiethey actually started calling carries this last season but the players obviously complained about it. JP and Ja do it all the time.
@@joesmith1574 this
5:06 that's both travel and double dribble, the NBA has a problem
so is the highlight directly after that one. Insane. Blatant ignorance of two of the most basic rules of the game.
@@justinmiller5280 I don't think you know what "ignorance" means
@@Set_Your_Handlle
ig·no·rant
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adjective
lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated.
I think you’re here to embarrass yourself Joe. I think that’s what it is? Why are you okay with being idiotic so loudly and publicly? What happened to shame?
@@Set_Your_Handllewhat’s wrong with his use of ignorance there. The NBA refs seems to be ignoring traveling and double dribbling which is two of the most important rules of basketball
Double dribble happens a lot, but there's so much going on it's easy to miss.
5:24 That Westbrook one is gold. He totally zoned out and then all the Warriors calling him out lol
Traveling hasn’t been called in the NBA since the 3 point line was instituted.
The Carmelo seven steps into the absolute brick 3 is iconic 😂 also D Wade was low key slick about scoochin that pivot foot forward I wouldn't be surprised if there were more clips of it
As a huge Wade fan - definitely, dude got away with a lot of foot shuffling (though far from the only one who did it).
People wondering how the refs miss this stuff, the refs are mostly watching hands for fouls in these situations where someone is stationary on a pivot foot.
The first guy I ever saw do that and get away with it all the time was Allan Houston. It's a great cheat move to use in pickup and 1-on-1 cuz most people don't notice it and it allows you to get enough room to get around a defender pretty reliably on a straight-line drive.
"it happens all the time in the NBA we just don't call it" straight from the commentators themselves lol 5:42
Because its not a big deal really
@@user-yi9hz3or2t from my perspective, if the player dont travel he has a range of predefined plays that can follow - which makes the defense more aware of certain situations to guard. If you travel you break this. You get in a zone where "anything goes", which makes even harder to prepare your defense for.
If you watch games, you know it’s not a secret by any stretch of the definition. In the Lakers vs Nuggets game just 2 hours before, commentator talked about travels called in college that wouldn’t be and wasn’t in the NBA.
@@user-yi9hz3or2t so why can’t you just carry the ball the entire length of the court then? Why is it a rule at all? Got to learn the history to understand the rules. You learn why some rules are justified and some are BS.
@@DamianSAAAN yeah a travel is a dumb rule they never call it because it RARELY changes the field of play
5:17 kawhi Like don’t touch me 😂😂
😂😂😂
:D
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
lmfaooo he's one of those guys
This is literally every game in the NBA.
There's so much favoritism given to players when they're on the offense. They let them get away with violating the rudimentary rules of basketball, on a minute by minute basis.
I'll never forgive James Harden for making that double step back move and I'll never forgive the NBA for not doing anything about it
Edit: This is a satirical comment to all you bozos taking it way too seriously in the replies
well when done right its not a travel, gather, 1, 2 they would have to just remove gathers which they wont do
Yeah, I remember seeing a video about the "zero" step which depends on where your hand is on the ball. I think as soon as your hand is in control of the lower half is when travel steps start counting.
@@FlyinMunky when both hands come in contact with ball is a more viable thing to look out for. Carries go uncalled most of the time
Well the rule was already there, he just learned to abuse it 😂 lol
I don't think James Harden or the NBA will ever see this.
Love how Durant started watching Westbrook travel , looked away came back and he was still traveling 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not only was he traveling, he had a layover as well!😂
Already knew that Russ one would be at the end 😭
The NBA might as well change the rule from 3 steps to 4 steps, but enforce it very strictly. That way, the scoring doesn't need to go down (which the NBA hates), and there would be a clearer distinction between a travel and non-travel.
If they changed it to 4, they'd allow 5. Players are always going to push the rules and NBA refs are always going to let them.
the amount of strands in hardens beard is the amount of times he walks per game
Harden don't even travel that much. The Ricky Rubio one was def a travel but most other times he's mastered the timing of the gather step so he essentially gets 3 steps instead of 2. On Curry's he BARELY gathered right before the should've been "0 step" so it was a travel. It's close and it would've been fine to not call it but it was a travel when you take your time to look at it.
@@joeasuncion2891 People can explain it away like that all they like, and sure it may not be technically a travel by NBA rules, but anyone who has grown up playing basketball knows that taking 3 steps doesn't feel right and should be a travel
As a kid, back in the 90''s-00's, In Europe we used to say that in the NBA you were allowed 3 steps & everyone believed it to be true to their hearts... Today is even worse, wow.
I mean you are allowed 3 steps kind of. "Gather step" isnt really a step but no you definently aren't alowed more than that lol
Yup, I always believed 3 steps were allowed, imagine my first officiated game being told it's actually 2 (but in the NBA.... oh, well).
Only 2 steps allowed in the NBA. I have no idea why people think that a foot that is already on the floor when the dribble ends should be considered a step. A dribble doesn't end at the last point the ball touches the floor...it ends when the player gains control of the ball and gathers it (two hands, against the body, or carried with a hand or part of the hand underneath the ball).
In europe you are allowed 3. They’re always talking about the “eurostep”
@@BackForwardPunch Eurostep is taking your 2nd step in the opposite direction.
Austin Carrs reaction to Ja’s travel had me “WAAAAAIT A MINUTE WAAAAAIT A MINUTE” ☠️
I don’t think that was a travel honestly
@@eazyeinthe503 it literally was, ja took 3 steps
@@nathanrogers1793He has his gathering step, then one right and one left and that's his pivot when he stops. You can call a travel for his pivot moving while he stops but a tiny bit of movement is not often called.
@@Boerkreeelis gathering step? yes the one he caught the ball on but if you look he clearly catches it and its a gather step but then takes 3 more steps
@@nathanrogers1793 He has his left foot already planted before his hand makes contact with the ball. His next step is the gathering step, which is with his right foot. He then puts another step with his left and stops, using that left as his pivot. At no point are there 3 steps, thus no travel. You can call the travel for his pivot foot because it moves quite a bit but it's certainly not 3 steps.
This is the definition of the gather, and traveling, for your info:
A player who gathers the ball while progressing may (a) take two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball or (b) if he has not yet dribbled, one step prior to releasing the ball to start his dribble.
A player who gathers the ball while dribbling may take two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball.
The first step occurs when a foot, or both feet, touch the floor after the player gathers the ball.
The definition of a gather is as such:
For a player who receives a pass or gains possession of a loose ball, the gather is defined as the point where the player gains enough control of the ball to hold it, change hands, pass, shoot, or cradle it against his body.
For a player who is in control of the ball while dribbling, the gather is defined as the point where a player does any one of the following:
Puts two hands on the ball, or otherwise permits the ball to come to rest, while he is in control of it; Puts a hand under the ball and brings it to a pause; Otherwise gains enough control of the ball to hold it, change hands, pass, shoot, or cradle it against his body.
Morant has his foot planted already before receiving the ball, hence that cannot be that gathering step. His next step, which he does with the right, is his gathering step. He is now deemed in control of the ball and can take two steps from here without dribbling. So he could even take another step with his left foot, making his right the pivot, and still not be called for traveling. So instead of a travel with 3 steps, he actually only had 1.
The Brooklyn Nets court always confuses my eyes 🙄
I'm not a basketball fan and much less a basketball player, but I always found it so funny when playing pick up with some more avid players that they always, and I mean always, just call travel on whatever they feel like and then take 12 steps for a layup or something and claim it was clean. Such a weird rule.
It only tavel if on the opposing team
Street ballers are guys who weren't good enough so they gotta cheat. Makes sense.
Rule is not weird. NBA is weird for allowing travel. Watch real basketball and you will never see this happen.
Street ball is a huge toss up unless you've got a group of good regulars. You'll find some of thinnest skin people you've ever seen in your life who think they should be able to get away with anything and want to fight you for calling them out, but then will be the first person to be calling others out. Fucking fragile ego babies.
love it when their own teammates on the bench react to walks :))
Well the one was a double dribble actually.
The Melo one kills me everytime lmao bro ran into his shot and bricked 💀
So confident too 😂😂😂
Shut the f up, Melo is.great 😂 not gonna lie that was funny af
That one’s not actually a travel, still a bad shot tho. His hand was behind the ball when he took those shuffle steps before shooting meaning he still “had a dribble” since he hadn’t picked up the ball. You can take any number of steps while you “have a dribble.” If his hand was under the ball it would’ve been a travel, but it was just a janky clean play.
@@simplymusic9004 watch it again he took hella steps 😂
@@daveeaster1061 You can take any number of steps while dribbling, and he took those extra steps before he picked up the ball
I can't actually finish watching this video. I get too angry that they don't care about this. We learn this stuff in under-8's in Australia.
5:23 Russ taking FIVE steps completely unguarded is a fantastic meme lmao Steph is just walking towards him like wtf is happening right now?!
You're allowed 4. The Receiving Step The Gathering Step The Crab Walk & The Signature Move. Oops that's 5. The Signature Move takes 2 steps.
Steph's wasn't much better. Dude caught the ball and thought he was playing football, doesn't ONCE dribble the ball before the layup.
Bro forgot the game even started
2:41 had me dying, even luka started laughing from confusion 🤣
shutbtt thwe rfyjcj up!
lol thats some streetball shit...
@@EgrickWhalesteinwew, google translate even able to translate this.
5:31 is the funniest travel of all time
They just let Lebron and stars travel if their team is supossed to win the game😂 the commissioners talks to the refs pre game
The James Harden double step back is a classic 😂😂😂
Classic garbage
@@aaronflowers8881it’s. Euro step and it’s legal
@@matthewwinter5780 classic garbage travel
@@aaronflowers8881 The Euro step, two-step, or long lateral is a basketball move in which an offensive player picks up their dribble, takes a step in one direction, and then quickly takes a second step in another direction. It is intended to allow the offensive player to evade a defender and attack the basket.
@@matthewwinter5780that’s not a Euro step
The Westbrook travel is one of my favourite nba moments ever 😂 everyone’s reactions including his is pure gold 😂
search internet for the Lebron travel way crazier
3:28 Bron was out Sunday strolling 😂😂😂😂
This the one that killed me too😂
They literally seeing him do it an no one's calling it smfh everyone deserves equally respect call the bit** on him
what an arrogant fool, he just literally didn't bother bouncing the ball as he knew no-one was going to call it
This, along with no defense and flopping, are reasons why including any modern player (post Kobe Bryant) in GOAT conversations is asinine.
It happens all the time in the NBA but we just don't call it. Sums up everything 😂😂
This, along with how they are allowed to carry the ball, make modern players records suspect.
If they had to control the ball within the Rules , many current players would be lucky to find work as Plumbers or Firemen.
All these prolific scorers like harden, curry, LeBum, KD, etc all have much easier shots than any player in the past did. It’s easy to get separation when you’re double jumping backwards every play like a video game character!
@@mikehatten5738 we are done with the 90s bruh
@@AllanBenDeweyUnfortunately
@allanbendewey yeah you guys play a bastardized version of the basketball. Congrats on ruining the game
I'm pretty sure I heard someone in the crowd scream "WTF" at 0:28 😂
It's the little things in life that bring us joy😂
I think there's an art to being able to pull off a travel so blatant and get away with it.
2:49 that's the "I made it I am included in the stars list" smile
I don't know how they let Harden get away with picking the ball up and taking like four steps back. I don't know what's more annoying the fact that they barely call it or the people who defend it.
You bozo the reason they "barely call it" and "people defend it" is because ITS 100% ALLOWED in the official NBA rulebook.
If it makes you mad then that's fine but its not against the rules whatsoever and that's why tons of good players do stuff similar.
@@cubsfanman-nx6pg yeah no it's not lmao
its allowed he takes a gather step then 2 steps back its 100% legal
5:26 my guy really called him westbrick 💀💀
ts crazy bruh
lame asl
As a ref, the reason these calls are missed is that we’re primarily taught to ref the defence first. It’s difficult to look at both at the same time and catch everything.
I remember watching an USA vs Spain where a player (i think it was Durant) started to travel nearly half court after a pass from a rebound to make a dunk and every single spanish player started to call the bullshit but the refs didn't invalidate the play...lol
Those were easily some solid 7-8 steps.
"It's a travel"
"That's James Harden's move"
"Every James Harden 3 pointer"
lmao
I'll take your word for it that it was a travel, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around that Doncic one for some reason.
I agree, not sure that his pivot foot ever left the ground at all, I think it was clean
It wasn’t travel but it almost was
@@Set_Your_Handlle You can see he jumps off of the floor completely before starting his dribble on the slow-mo.
@@SgtHoltonso? You can do that.
It was carry minimal
Thank you!!! I thought I was the only one to notice, This has driven me crazy many years.
The Lebron one is the funniest. Everybody freaking out buts he’s not even paying attention to what’s going on 😂
Still GOAT tho
@@abelanc1090 nah
@@abelanc1090Greatest of all Travelers.
@@jandanielbondad5176 He travels on purpose to confuse defense.
yea its because he traveled, carried and doubled at the same time like what are these people looking at
Poor Russell was just out of it for a second, he had that moment of realization: "Oh shit, I can't just walk with the ball..." 🤣
Much as I liked playing basketball, this is why I could never play it competitively. Can’t touch someone with the ball, but they can bump the defense. Can’t travel, but “a few” steps is okay. Full court press getting called as fouls. So much of basketball depends on what the refs consider okay or not that you’re almost a sucker for trying to stick to the rules to the letter.
for half of these nowadays no one would even question it just cos of how used we are to seeing these
Lord this is too funny!!! The fact that the stars really get away with it is funny and they know they got away with it their reactions are golden 😂 that Westbrook walk is the most crazy thing ever dude was like why are y’all stopping play I’m running the offense
Don't take God's name in vain
Even the rolling wrist when dribbling was counted walking when I was a kid.
1:57 That commentator spitting fax tho
The players are high AF that's why travelling has gotten so bad. It's brutal. The NBA and the refs should reel it back in a call it on everybody.
Thanks for giving us an infinitesimally microscopic sample of the traveling that occurs in the NBA.
The fact that in the 60s, they are not even allowed to place their hands on the side of the ball to this lol Them old players must be really bitter by this
Dude i played ball just 15 years ago and the coaches were killing us with suicide runs every time your palm would go under the ball or even just close to it... that shit was so hard especially for a PG...and running sprints with the ball... god damn.. Can you imagine a modern day player touching the ball only from the upper side? No. To me they carry the ball all the time lol
I'm an old amateur player. I got to the point where I just counted three steps on D just to avoid arguing with retards. That started mid Kobe era around 2005.
Watch Olympic basketball and see how refs whistle these violations from the word "go". It's wonderful to see ...
It's why I can't slander the yesteryear eras. Sure you can argue there's more talent today, but they had less teams. And to top it off like you stated about the rules. I heard it was with assists as well, even one dribble could cancel an assist tally
@@ludwigvonn9889 Don't take God's name in vain
We need a highlight reel of an entire season of the travels LeBron gets away with.... t'would be lengthy.
It's everybody man. Everybody does it. You'd be stupid not to if the refs are just going to allow it, really.
I swear I was playing under stricter regulations in high school gym class
James Harden could step back the entire court at this point and they wouldn't call it
This mans content is so creative
2:24 imagine taking 6 steps and still bricking
do u guys not understand that it's not just from when the ball last bounced its from when the ball is picked up i.e. when you grab it with 2 hands or your begin carrying it. The last 1 or 2 stutter steps you might call a travel in that play but its not that noticeable.
@@drydevil1nah these guys dont play, only sit on the couch. this one actually isn’t a travel
@@drydevil1 That's carrying at the very least. Cant just sit there bobbling the ball while you take as many steps as you want.
Thank you for bringing awareness to this issue.