What Constitutes "Walking" in a SEC Basketball Game?

[Goldendawg]

My son and I were seated on Row D looking right at the goal for the KY game. I was screaming at the Refs as every time KY's big man (usually the same player), popped out to the head of the circle to run a play, he was constantly moving both feet like he was on "Dancing With the Stars". He never established a pivot foot and constantly moved both feet if only for about six inches or so. Is this not walking? Also, the same end where Hubbard was called for carrying the ball on an attempted drive to the bucket. IMO, a borderline call as I have not seen this called in a college (or even MS HS) game in years. In fact, I asked a MHSAA ref at a recent HS game what was carrying the ball these days as they palm it on almost every dribble. He said if they called it in today's HS game, there would be no flow to the game and it would never end. He said it would only be called if used as an offensive advantage on a drive to the goal, (Ala Hubbard perhaps?).

[RocketDawg]

My son and I were seated on Row D looking right at the goal for the KY game. I was screaming at the Refs as every time KY's big man (usually the same player), popped out to the head of the circle to run a play, he was constantly moving both feet like he was on "Dancing With the Stars". He never established a pivot foot and constantly moved both feet if only for about six inches or so. Is this not walking? Also, the same end where Hubbard was called for carrying the ball on an attempted drive to the bucket. IMO, a borderline call as I have not seen this called in a college (or even MS HS) game in years. In fact, I asked a MHSAA ref at a recent HS game what was carrying the ball these days as they palm it on almost every dribble. He said if they called it in today's HS game, there would be no flow to the game and it would never end. He said it would only be called if used as an offensive advantage on a drive to the goal, (Ala Hubbard perhaps?).

Agree they should call traveling more so they'd stop doing it. And they need to call palming the ball because both teams do it every time they bring the ball down court. The rules are rules for a reason.

[Johnson85]

Traveling has basically no definition now. I would love to know how refs decide when to call it and when they don't. As far as I can tell, it's something along the lines of the first few steps after catching the ball don't really count. Catcht he ball and shuffle your feet and don't get an advantage, that's a no call now. Catch the ball while in movement, and it's something like an NFL rule to establish possession. Once you have caught it and taken a step or two to establish you really have control, then the steps start counting for travleing.

[KentuckyDawg13]

This is today's player's role model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqaRAQsK1O4

PS> The refs are biased and influenced too.

[Tater]

Walking in basketball needs its own rendition of explaining a balk in baseball:

BALK RULES! IMPORTANT!
1. You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that.
1a. A balk is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that.
1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b(2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic...
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
2. Do not do a balk please.

[nsvltndog]

I definitely noticed the no calls on the walking. There was one possession where the same dude walked 3 times & of course it ended in a made basket. Likely a 3 pointer but I can't remember for certain b/c I was so focused on the missed traveling calls. Hubbard's was a carry, but a few minutes earlier a similar carry was not called on KY.

[RocketDawg]

It's no wonder LeBron scored so much.