The play described below is provided for your review and discussion. The rulings given are based on NFHS rules. NCAA rulings may be different.
A-1 passes the ball to A-2. A-2 catches the ball with the left foot on the floor inside the three point arc with the right foot in the air. A-2 places the right foot on the floor behind the three-point arc, picks up the left and puts it down on the floor behind the arc.
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This is a traveling violation. A-2 caught the ball with the left foot on the floor. When A-2 put the right foot on the floor, the left became the pivot foot. The pivot foot was picked up and put back down while holding the ball. By definition, this is a traveling violation.
(References: 4-44-2b1, 4-44-3a)
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** This is incorrect as written. The answer is legal.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Paul Behr,
You state that A1 lifts and places left foot from inside 3 point line and down behind the line but no mention is made of the right foot. This means as written that the inbounding pass in question caught by A-1 could have and was written by omission here as A-1 having the right foot alighted, off the ground. This would make the right foot the pivot foot upon coming down to the floor behind the arc prior to the left foot lifting and moving from in front of the three point arc to behind it!
Hindsight has A1 catching the inbound pass with both feet on the floor in front of the three point arc. and so on. this would indeed then be “traveling”.
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I understand the confusion that this play sometimes evokes. However, this is not the NBA where this move would be legal. Under NFHS 4-44-2b1 (“If one foot is on the floor, it is the pivot when the other foot touches…”) the left foot became the pivot foot when the right foot touched the floor. Now A-2 could have legally jumped off the left foot before the right foot touched and landed on both simultaneously (legal jump stop). Of course, then there would be no pivot foot.
A2 rather above. -Doug B. (myself above)- see, we all miake mistakes! lol
Very Interesting Play. The Left foot is the pivot foot, as A-2 caught the ball with the right foot
off the floor. Thanks!