Hey officials, what the hell is this?
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It is called walking 3 times. Such a joke. Taking all of the skill out of basketball. Pure trash.
Basketball - both NBA and college - is the absolute worst officiated sport and it isn’t close. You’re telling me not ONE guy on that crew had the balls to call that a walk? He walked TWICE. That entire crew should be dismissed. And now with the rampant gambling, stuff like this is even more egregious.
FIBA creating and then the NBA adopting the concept of the "zero step" is the worst thing to ever happen to the game.
Technically I counted only 5 step... regardless its a rediculous WALK
Yeah I saw that watchingt the game. Thats ridiculous even for NBA standards
Why require dribbling at all? Players could move up and down the court much more efficiently without it, and the overall speed of the game would improve. The above play by Giannis is a step (well, 5-6 steps) in the right direction, IMHO.
Was just saying in another thread. It’s unbelievable to me people sit and watch an NBA game. I honestly can’t make sense of how someone does it. Regular season NBA especially. It doesn’t get worse in all of sports.
Did you mean the "Euro Step"? That move has never been a walk though it's been called that way in the past. The problem in this clip is that Giannis took at least two of them.
That kind of **** is why I won't watch the garbage NBA. And the dam flopping
No. Euro steps and Zero/Gather Steps are not the same thing. You can google zero step for basketball and get caught up.
Thanks, somehow that's the first time I've ever heard anybody mention Zero/Gather Steps. I just googled and watched a video of examples.
The NBA has totally different walking rules than the NCAA...and I still don't understand what is and is not a walk in the NBA.
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They need to eliminate the euro step and make these guys play 90s man’s basketball. It’s hurting the youth too. My boy loves James harden and in middle school he’s constantly doing euros and step backs which he’s good at but depending on who’s officiating it’s called a walk half the time. Makes me so upset the inconsistency. All an opposing coach has to do is yell it’s a walk and it gets called. We work on this constantly in the gym but it does no good. I hate the euro
I would love to see players these days have to play a game by the old or original rules. Palming and carrying the ball is out of control these days too. when guys put the ball on their hip and take about 3 or four steps, how is that not carrying? 100% of the point guards bringing the ball up the court these days dribble by putting their palm on the bottom of the ball and rolling it over. Naismith is rolling in his grave.
He travels twice on that one play.
Note how he even walked before he started the dribble. The ball must leave the hand before the pivot is lifted.
Note how he even walked before he started the dribble. The ball must leave the hand before the pivot is lifted.
I think the euro step is fine when done correctly. Simply don’t allow a 3rd step. Thats fair.
What’s worse to me is the allowing now of the step lifting your pivot foot when you’ve picked up your dribble and are (usually) making a post move.
Jordan and Hakeem did all that work with perfect footwork and they have now all desecrated that work.
Jordan and Hakeem did all that work with perfect footwork and they have now all desecrated that work.
Been saying it for years, college and pro basketball games are affected by refs calls/no calls more than any other sport.
A total joke. I count 5 full steps.
Rod Rhodes has to be shaking his head.
Rod Rhodes has to be shaking his head.
He did. All together, he took 8 steps while putting the ball on the floor 1 time. 3 steps, then dribble, 5 full steps.
The refs should be suspended.
Yes. Even church leagues call it.
I watched some old nba and ky games a while back. It was more difficult to create spacing when finishing. Imagine MJ with a euro. The euro didn’t exist until Ginobli started doing it.
The modern day NBA BLOWS! Absolute GARBAGE product! By the way, Giannis walked before he even dribbled. He picked up his pivot well before he tried putting the ball on the floor. YUCK!
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Even switching pivot feet is mostly allowed now. The NBA is a complete and utter joke. I use to enjoy watching it but cant stand it now. I only watch Timberwolves games when I can and some playoffs.
The problem with banning the Euro-step is that it takes the exact same amount of steps as a regular legal layup, just with a hesitation and/or change of direction before putting the last foot down. The only way to ban it would be to ban the hesitation and I don't think any of us would want to see an SEC referee determining whether or not there was a hesitation. Kentucky wouldn't even be allowed to dribble with the game on the line.