Julius Randle’s controversial travel call explained by Scott Foster

The New York Knicks nearly won a game they didn’t win on Monday night. With 28.6 seconds to play, the Brooklyn Nets 115-108 followed. A couple of buckets, a successful review and two jump-balls later, the Knicks found themselves in possession of three points with 5.7 seconds left.

It was then that Julius Randle was called to travel in this comedy:

As Foster further explained, even if Randle had lost control of the ball while it was in the air, he couldn’t have been the first to touch it back to the ground, nor was he allowed to dribble, which is you can see he did too. he. The NBA will release its last two minutes report on Tuesday, which will confirm if the right choice has been made.

The interesting thing is that if you look closely, it looks like Irving touched the ball before Randle left his feet. It makes no difference because Randle, without the ball having been moved, still chose to rise, and from there he cannot go back with possession. But if he had the means to let the ball go in a way that didn’t seem to be on purpose, and if the game was revised, you should be wondering if perhaps Foster’s call could have basically been reversed because of that. being a normal streak, before Randle rose. If the call had been overturned for those reasons, it would have led to a third jump to two in the last 30 seconds, and he who knows how it would have turned out.

That said, the Knicks no longer had any challenges after using their final timeout prior to that possession, and once again Randle never lost control of the ball anyway. He’s gone up with it, so he can’t go back with it. Foster’s explanation makes sense, but again, we’ll wait for the L2M report for concrete clarification.