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Message: [QUOTE="Doctor Hoop, post: 5359243, member: 6845"] I don't actually think it's technically legal. He "gathers" with his right hand on/under the ball in full control, then stutters and takes the two additional long steps. It's five if you start from when he stops dribbling, four from controlling the ball with the right hand fully. So is it textbook legal if you start counting when his left hand joins the right on the ball? Maybe. But then he took 3 steps before gathering, shouldn't that be a travel? Either way, it points out the silliness of the "gather" rule if this monstrosity is considered legal. Someone in one of the X threads that posted this showed a Julius Erving dunk from way out by the left sideline, with only the two large steps and an explosion to the rim, the standard approach only. Players could cover a lot of distance in the past without taking 5 steps. [/QUOTE]