j.Cliff 🇵🇭

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[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@Coach__Strick This is actually a travel. After he gathers he takes 4 steps. Most of the stuff you probably complain about isn’t a travel, but this is clearly a travel. Just ask yourself at each moment, can he still dribble again with no violation, if the answer is no, then the ball is gathered

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@pointmadebball Most of the time these complains are clean plays. This one he mis timed his gather and footwork. It’s a prettt blatant travel. Took 4 steps after the gather. After each moment, always ask “if he dribbles again is it a violation?” If the answer is yes, the ball has been gathered.

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@bballbreakdown When dudes watch too much MDW but can’t execute the footwork and timing correctly.

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@cicisaysss Literally could have at least gave us 0.000000001 but they can’t even give us hope 😭

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

When Thomas Robinson's name was called fifth overall in the draft, he turned and hugged the only family he had left. His 9 year old sister.

Seventeen months earlier, his college coach had asked him who the team should call.

"Coach, you don't get it. There isn't anybody left."

Here is how he got from that night to this one.

He grew up in Washington D.C., raised by his mother, Lisa. He called her before every game.

In January of his sophomore year at Kansas, he was a backup forward for the Kansas Jayhawks. Over the holidays his grandmother passed away. A few weeks later, his grandfather.

Then, late on a Friday night, his phone rang. It was his little sister, 9 years old, calling to tell him their mother was gone.

Within the hour, his teammates, the coaches, and some of the players' mothers were crowded into his apartment.

Bill Self asked him who they should call. That is when Robinson told him there was nobody left.

Self put it simply afterward.

"My heart just broke."

He called the scene in that apartment "the saddest thing I've ever seen in my life."

The next day Kansas played the Texas Longhorns. Robinson asked to play.

Before tip there was a moment of silence for his mother. Marcus Morris stood next to him and cried. Robinson played eight minutes. Two points, five rebounds.

Kansas lost, and a 69 game home winning streak ended. Nobody in that building cared about the streak.

Then everybody showed up for him.

Kansas started the Lisa Robinson Scholarship Fund for his sister. The whole team flew to Washington for the funeral.

Here is how Self explained why it mattered so much.

"Thomas is all she knows."

Even the NCAA made room for Kansas to help. Self said it plainly. "The NCAA has been unbelievable."

Angel Morris, the mother of Marcus and his twin brother Markieff, told Thomas she would look after him and his sister. She meant it. Years later the three of them and Thomas started a foundation together called Family Over Everything.

The next season he became one of the best players in the country. A consensus first team All-American. Nearly 18 points and 12 rebounds a game. He carried Kansas to the national championship game.

Then the draft. The Sacramento Kings took him fifth.

His sister was right there. He grabbed her.

"She just hugged me. And it was the best hug in the world."

Here is the honest part. The pro career did not go the way anybody hoped. He played for six teams in his first five seasons and has spent the years since playing all over the world. He is still playing, most recently in Puerto Rico.

But a 19 year old lost everybody he had in a matter of weeks, and he did not lose his sister.

There was nobody left.

So he became the somebody.

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[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@SeizeMyBoat @Sam_Vecenie My original statement is always true. If you can still take another dribble instead of gathering the ball, the steps don’t count. Once you gather the ball, whether it be with one or two hands, then another dribble would be a violation. It’s simple like I said.

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@SeizeMyBoat @Sam_Vecenie Yes, but if the ball is spinning that means he isn’t controlling it yet. The moment it stops spinning it’s controlled/gathered.

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@SeizeMyBoat @Sam_Vecenie You mean it is a gather. The point at which you’re controlling the ball and makes the ball dead is a gather. Except he didn’t have control and wasn’t influencing the ball from falling as it’s still seen spinning - he lost control there and gained control again a fraction later

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@JamesSurowiecki @Shane00 It looks as if he actually lost control a bit trying to gather with his right hand, and needed to corral it to both hands in order to gain control again. The ball is still spinning until he steps on his left foot. I think this is also why he slows down and stutter steps to gather

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@Moneyched @KIRSoccer @FuegoCastillo @JeffBiesinger You are correct, except here the ball is spinning and he loses control until he corrals it with both hands.

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@bballbreakdown @elothean But yes, people are most familiar with the globally less popular rule set of the USA high school rules where you’re technically given a single step because the gather foot is the pivot foot.

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@bballbreakdown @elothean To be fair, it appears Hugo did try to gather one handed with his right hand on his left foot but lost control (hence why ball was still spinning in his hand) and then you see him slow down a bit to corral the ball to 2 hands to gain control on his left foot.

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@KIRSoccer @FuegoCastillo @JeffBiesinger If you’re counting steps from the last bounce, then you have no idea what a live dribble or a travel is.

Here is “3 steps” before Jordan even was a name people knew

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@RudeBoy31079789 @Shane00 No, your dribble ends once taking another dribble would result in a violation (for example holding it with 2 hands or palming the ball). If you can still dribble, the steps don’t matter because you’re still in a live dribble.

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@Shane00 To be fair, he did try to gather one handed with his right hand on his left foot but lost control (hence why ball was still spinning in his hand) and then you see him slow down a bit to corral the ball to 2 hands to gain control.

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@KIRSoccer @FuegoCastillo @JeffBiesinger As I said in my other post. It’s always been the same rule just clarified 20ish years ago. You’re asking for high school (only in the USA) rules where you’re technically only allowed a single step because your gather foot is the pivot foot.

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@KIRSoccer @FuegoCastillo @JeffBiesinger If he gathered the ball with his left foot which is when the dribble ended, how can that be counted as a step? By your definition, every time Michael Jordan was on a fast break jumping off one leg it’s “3 steps”

So what you’re really asking for is high school rules a Single step

[j.Cliff 🇵🇭 @Buruskeee]

@KIRSoccer @FuegoCastillo @JeffBiesinger He didn’t. He gathered on his left foot. Took his first step on right (pivot) second step on left (non pivot) while lifting his pivot, and released the ball before landing.