like they do in football when they are waiting to down a punt and letting it roll.

When a guy loses the ball and is scared to touch tit because people will call traveling but it isn't really traveling.

Any pickup game this will be called a travel and guys will dance around the ball but I heard the actual rules ALWAYS allow you to pick up the ball again.

You can dribble and if u pick the ball up and fumble it again you can always pick it back up.

for some reason people think they need to dance around it if they lost their dribble and fumble the ball again.

Clarification please?

5/19/2010 5:16:01 PM

5/19/2010 5:19:44 PM

Quote :

"scared to touch tit"

and who calls traveling in a pickup game?

5/19/2010 5:20:25 PM

k

5/19/2010 5:23:31 PM

the one that always drives me crazy is if people try to call it a travel if someone catches their own airball.

5/19/2010 5:32:08 PM

^ but that is a travel.

If you airball, you deserve whatever happens to you next.

aside from that, when I ball outside, I especially lol @:

charge calls (oh yes, it's happened)
over the back
palming
10 sec in the backcourt


those make me laugh.

5/19/2010 5:37:52 PM

Quote :

"and who calls traveling in a pickup game?"

the same pussies who call offensive fouls in a pickup game

5/19/2010 5:49:30 PM

I'm with rally. the omgomg self pass outrage on a shot you launched while getting fouled is always amusing.

5/19/2010 5:54:03 PM

^that is a good one.

kickball is called way too much.

5/19/2010 6:27:27 PM

you guys play some pansy pickup games...COME TO THE PLAYGROUND SONS

5/19/2010 6:48:59 PM

^^^^^^ but that actually is a travel

Quote :

"i. A player who attempts a field goal may not be the first to touch the ball if it fails to touch the backboard, basket ring or another player."

http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_10.html




to answer mambagrl according to this it isn't a travel unless he has lifted his pivot foot and then loses the ball

Quote :

"g. If a player, with the ball in his possession, raises his pivot foot off the floor, he must pass or shoot before his pivot foot returns to the floor. If he drops the ball while in the air, he may not be the first to touch the ball."

http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_10.html

[Edited on May 19, 2010 at 6:52 PM. Reason : `]

5/19/2010 6:51:58 PM

^Re self-pass, it's different in NCAA in that there is no rule against it.

This matters if you play a league game and they are going by HS or NCAA rules rather than NBA rules (likely).

5/19/2010 8:24:54 PM

I call fouls like a motherfucker if they deserve them... This is a highly skilled game, not a brawl. If they want to fight we can put the ball away and throw down, but if we are playing ball we are playing bball..

5/19/2010 8:29:02 PM

i stopped playing basketball a few years ago but i always subscribed to my 2 rules.

1) dont call it unless you know for fucking sure it happened.

2) dont back down just because a black guy disagrees with what you know happened.

if a black person tries to intimidate me with his call, not only do i not back down i make it personal to the point where i hope he takes a cheap shot at me later. Do not let it go until he feels like a pussy.

I fucking hate the "intimidation" calls that make little white kids steer clear of basketball and ill uphold them consistently no matter how nice my car looks in the parking lot.

If you take a charge in a pickup game, call a palm, etc though this rule does not apply.

This is for the guys out there that always say you stepped out when you go baseline, it was a clean block when you got smoked in the face, or call a foul when the ball is in your hands.

Give an inch, take a mile.

5/19/2010 8:40:05 PM

5/19/2010 8:53:07 PM

gasol just airballed it caught it and got called for a travel. dunleavy confirmed that it was indeed a travel.

Quote :

" to answer mambagrl according to this it isn't a travel unless he has lifted his pivot foot and then loses the ball Quote : "g. If a player, with the ball in his possession, raises his pivot foot off the floor, he must pass or shoot before his pivot foot returns to the floor. If he drops the ball while in the air, he may not be the first to touch the ball.""

is this rule the same in college?



[Edited on May 19, 2010 at 9:19 PM. Reason : kick rule is bs. theres no way to know intent half the time.]

5/19/2010 9:14:16 PM

FACK

5/19/2010 11:51:56 PM

WOLP

5/19/2010 11:52:48 PM

Quote :

"2) dont back down just because a black guy disagrees with what you know happened."

Personal huh? Tough


III

[Edited on May 20, 2010 at 9:03 AM. Reason : .]

5/20/2010 9:02:54 AM

Quote :

" the one that always drives me crazy is if people try to call it a travel if someone catches their own airball."

peirce just got called for this


at state i was taught you could always pick the ball up no matter what. Unless of course you took what was deemed a dribble then its a double.

5/24/2010 9:37:49 PM

Not a rule except in the nba.

5/24/2010 10:10:07 PM

5/24/2010 10:12:24 PM

the thing is, what defines a shot

you guys are saying a college player can throw himself an allyoop? or if he is stuck in a corner he can throw it up and run and get it? i guess you are saying if he cant beat the other guy he deserves it?

5/24/2010 11:54:12 PM

The title of this thread is misleading.

5/26/2010 1:38:20 PM

it's called "ghostriding," and my informant tells me that it's what's real on the streets.

5/26/2010 11:56:57 PM

^^^ in college it is called self pass and is also considered illegal. if the ball is knocked away you can get it and continue dribblin if you lose control you may pick it up without dribbling

side note- pick up now sucks if its a charge its considered a block whether ya call it or not its a bitch thing just beause there isn't a ref doesnt mean rules fade. i understand not callin a palm, backcourt, 5 seconds ext but a charge should still be valid Though id never call it

5/27/2010 12:23:09 AM

^^ i broke my windshield ghostriding

5/27/2010 2:01:59 AM

^^ i agree the an extent, in some games you get Johnny Out-Of-Control who Mike Alstotts his way through the lane every time down the court.

But charge/block calls would never be agreed upon in a pick-up game. I have a feeling there would be quite a few folks from the Coach K school of flops in a close game.

[Edited on May 27, 2010 at 8:03 AM. Reason : Still confused by the thread title "when a player dances around the ball"... WTF]

5/27/2010 8:02:15 AM