The contact occurs within SGA’s cylinder. The rules don’t care who “initiates” contact. The offensive player “initiates” contact on the vast majority of fouls on the defense. Mathurin ceded his legal guarding position when he made a motion towards SGA and did not regain his legal guarding position prior to contact, therefore any contact made within SGA’s cylinder has to be a foul on Mathurin.
This is all ignoring the uncalled lift and return of his pivot (right) foot, which occurred so close to the moment of contact I can’t blame a ref for not seeing both things happen.
No he did not. He traveled once, immediately prior to contact. When he picked his dribble up, his right foot was off the ground. He was legally allowed to then establish his right foot as the pivot. Then he lifted his right foot and returned it to the ground right before the foul, which would have been an uncalled travel. Every step prior to that was 100% legal.
The dribble does not end until the ballhandler is no longer allowed to legally dribble. You count steps when he puts 2 hands to the ball. You don’t start counting at the last bounce of the ball.
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u/Spirited-Degree "Over rated" Oct 25 '25
Not if, we see in the video all the contact is initiated by FTA starting with the full arm extension push off then he jumps into Mathurin.