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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 880053">I frankly don't know what the rules say these days but back in the day the first step is where a foot hits the floor just before stopping the dribble, the right foot for a right handed shot on a drive.  I imagine you're calling that the "gather step".  The next step establishes the pivot foot, the left foot in that example.  That's all the steps you get, or should I say "got".  Now, you can jump off the pivot foot (of course you'd want to on a drive) and it won't be traveling if the shot is made before the right foot hits the ground.I suppose some folks want to call the jump off the pivot a 1/2 step.  Sounds like a misnomer to me that only confuses the issue.Now, sometimes it looks like there is no gather step because the dribble stops a split second after that first foot hits the floor instead of before, it looks like 3 steps, or 3 1/2 if you will.  It looks like that because sometimes that's what it is, travelling, and it often goes uncalled.  Sometimes it looks like travelling and isn't if the player jumps off the "wrong" foot.I've probably watched a grand total of a 1/2 of a quarter of Antetokounmpo's play, just checking in to see what all the hubbub was about.  It was kind of boring; he didn't see the ball much in those 6 or so minutes so I can't comment on what he does or doesn't do.</blockquote>

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