The Bradley Beal Travel

[Big333223]

Bradley Beal traveled. No Call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvczsu9bhM

In response, the NBA Referees twitter responded:

The offensive player gathers with his right foot on the ground. He then takes two legal steps, before losing control of the ball. After regaining possession, a player is allowed to regain his pivot foot and pass or shoot priot to that foot returning to the ground. This is legal.

I don't know if this is a referee problem or a league problem because the league is directing the refs to officiate in this way but the NBA needs to get its house in order. This is pure stupidity.

[DefenseWinsChamps]

I saw this. Perhaps its not a travel in the sense that he took too many steps. But it has to be a travel in that he loses possession, moves and then regathers. If the ball had hit the ground there and he regathered possession, wouldn't that be a double-dribble?

[Donoghus]

If it looks like a travel & smells like a travel.....

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

Totally a travel. He didn't "lose control of the ball"; he took two steps, realized he was going to get his shot swatted, then realized he couldn't complete a pass, so he let go of the ball deliberately, most likely in an effort to make it appear that he "lost control of the ball." Even by NBA standards this was a terrible no-call.

[LilRip]

I don’t see where he loses control of the ball.

[Monkhouse]

Bradley Beal traveled. No Call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvczsu9bhM

In response, the NBA Referees twitter responded:

The offensive player gathers with his right foot on the ground. He then takes two legal steps, before losing control of the ball. After regaining possession, a player is allowed to regain his pivot foot and pass or shoot priot to that foot returning to the ground. This is legal.

I don't know if this is a referee problem or a league problem because the league is directing the refs to officiate in this way but the NBA needs to get its house in order. This is pure stupidity.

Rozier about to start learning from Beal lol.

He's already adopted the double step back..

Oh god, the NBA has become a !@#$-show.

[Spilling Green Dye]

That wasn't 2 steps and loss of control.. that was clearly 3 steps followed by letting go off the ball and then re-gaining it.  There's 2 separate travels.  I can see being caught off guard by the second travel and mistakenly not calling it.  What p---es me off is that they no longer call the 1st one any more.  That wasn't a "gathering the ball step", that's 3 full steps while cradling the ball.. that's a travel.

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

Didn't lose control at all, went to dribble but knew it would be called and just grabbed it to try and pass it. Before that, he went around the world in 80 days!!! If that's not a travel then what is???

[hodgy03038]

I don’t see where he loses control of the ball.

He temporarily lost control of the ball after taking FOUR steps without dribbling?? How can that not be a travel?

[nickagneta]

I saw a controlled effort to make it look like he lost control of the ball when he really didn't. For that reason I see 4 steps....travel. If you believe he lost control of the ball he did it after three steps....travel. Then he re-gained the ball before anyone or thing had touched the ball, after already taking two steps holding the ball and making a basketball move with the ball....travel.

Any way you see it, at game speed, in slow mo, whatever, that's a travel.

[PAOBoston]

Guys, what’s a few extra steps?

[gouki88]

I wonder if the league will realise that these insane no-calls don't make for a more entertaining product.
Watching Harden shuffle at the 3 point line isn't fun. Watching Giannis take 3 steps then barrel right into a guy's chest isn't fun.

[Big333223]

Scanning twitter, there doesn't seem to be a human on Earth beyond NBA referees who think this isn't a travel. Beal himself tweeted a laughing emoji/shrug emoji because even he thinks he traveled. So the question becomes, how can the only people on the face of the planet that think this is legal be the only people who actually get to decide? It's insane.

[Donoghus]

Scanning twitter, there doesn't seem to be a human on Earth beyond NBA referees who think this isn't a travel. Beal himself tweeted a laughing emoji/shrug emoji because even he thinks he traveled. So the question becomes, how can the only people on the face of the planet that think this is legal be the only people who actually get to decide? It's insane.

Now we even have the NBA VP of referee development chiming in.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25983783/monty-mccutchen-disputes-nbra-says-wizards-bradley-beal-traveled