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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3796126, member: 1131"] I can't claim to be a basketball rules lawyer, but I did read the traveling rules on Page 80 of the PDF that you referenced. I agree with you that they do not appear to allow a full step prior to releasing a shot. HOWEVER, in basketball at all levels (not just the NBA) for as long as I can remember, a player driving to the basket for a layup has been allowed to pick up his/her dribble and then take a full step before releasing the shot. Moriah did that all the time on some of her most memorable drives. Stewie did it in the first half of the Mississippi State blowout game, when her "step and a half" covered nearly the entire distance between the free throw line and the hoop. I have to believe that this is provided for somewhere in the rules. If that is correct, and a step prior to a shot is allowed, then in the step-back jump shot case, moving one foot back is OK because it is not the pivot foot, and moving the second (pivot) foot back is OK because of the allowed single step. In that case, moving both feet back before shooting (even if the feet are not moved simultaneously) should be legal. And if that is not correct, then I don't see how the problem is cured by moving both feet back simultaneously, as the Big 12 supervisor of officials indicated. Note that the newspaper article from the Kansas City Mercury that was previously cited in this thread refers to "one legal step". I realize they aren't the rule book, but I doubt if they fabricated the concept from whole cloth. [/QUOTE]

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