Referee's in the NIT are worthless!

• Jughead

  

  End of Memphis-St. John's game includes a buzzer beater that somehow counts after a Memphis player takes no less than 4 steps after picking up the ball.
  
  He picked up the ball from the three point line and walked all the way to the box at the bottom of the post in a r-pattern before throwing up a prayer. It's hard to explain, but if you see the replay, it will be quite obvious.
• GOONx19

  

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7riXVFXDo0
  
  Good angle at the 1:10 mark. Looks like three, but it's still a travel.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  I didn't watch the youtube clip, but watching it live it looked like he shuffled his feet before he even started dribbling on that drive. They should have called traveling twice.
• ralphus33

  It is not the refs for the NIT games. It is refs for basketball in general. It is as if the rules have changed over the past 10 or so years and players are now allowed an extra 2-3 steps. They also do not call people for palming the ball like they should.
• Laley23

  

  I didnt see a travel. I think he takes another dribble and just does his jump stop into a shot. We cant see that dribble cause his back is to us, but thats what it looks like to me. Not a travel.
• cbus4life

  Agree with Laley.
• Eric Taylor

  Jay Williams from Duke even said he got away with a travel.
• thedynasty1998

  

  Didn't look all that bad to me, and definitely wasn't "no less than 4 steps".
• Laley23

  

  I just re-watched. I just fail to see where the travel is.
• CinciX12

  

  Eric Taylor wrote: Jay Williams from Duke even said he got away with a travel.

  Well if Jay Williams from Duke said it, then hell it must be true. He won 4 national titles didn't he?
• wildcats20

  

  I've seen worse.
  
  I'm with Laley on this one, I don't see a travel.
• september63

  

  And the officiating was any better in the Villanova/Robert Morris game today?
• GOONx19

  

  The kid takes three steps after the ball's in his hands. It's not a jump stop; all three land at separate times. That's a travel, except in the NBA.
• fortfan

  Ref in the UD game called a shot clock violation with 3 seconds left on the clock....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31dnKOOFYNg
• Jughead

  

  ^^^ROFL
  
  I didn't see the last dribble on the live view when I made the tread...but 3 steps is STILL A TRAVEL.
• Laley23

  

  Jughead wrote: ^^^ROFL
  
  I didn't see the last dribble on the live view when I made the tread...but 3 steps is STILL A TRAVEL.

  Thats so tough though, because it is so subjective. I am a referee and I would not have called that a travel at any point in a game.
  
  When a player picks up his dribble he often has a foot still in the air, and thats not his pivot foot. In other words, if you watch that video he is finishing a step when he grabs the ball with his second hand. That foot, by rule, is allowed to come down and he then has a pivot foot (to put in laymans terms, he then can take his two steps). That was not a travel. Watch today in the games. When players are running at a teammate and the teammate passes the ball they often finish their steps while catching the ball and then still have their pivot foot.
  
  People are very quick to judge officials on this type of play without realizing how much freedom offensive players have in that type of situation.