MUScoop

So when I'm not making these MU wallpapers :-p  I coach freshman basketball at a nearby HS.  This would be my second season with a different Head Varsity coach trying to implement a new system.  Last year, I taught my players the 2 step jump stop - I felt it gave the player more versatility and less of a chance to be called for a traveling violation.  This year, I was told to implement the 1-2 jump stop.  It seems like it makes it easier to gather yourself, rather than just using so much force to stop, but it seems like you'd have to do it in a slow pace to make it effective.  So I'm asking my fellow MU Scoopers:  Which is better? 

I think when I was growing up and playing, the 1-2 jumpstop was considered a travel.

I thought all jump stops had to be onto 2 feet. I know NBA players get away with a lot, but at the amateur level I thought you had to land on 2 feet.

Am I wrong? (certainly possible)

Fundamentally, the 2 foot jump stop is better because with the 1-2 jump stop you can get yourself caught in the air or making a decision (to shoot or pass) and end up with a turnover.  With a 2 foot jump stop you can hold the ball or change your decision if someone comes over to help (dump off) or jumps the passing lane.  When I played in High School our PG used the 1-2 method and even though it looked like a travel nearly everytime it did allow him to get to the basket much quicker and easier. (1 less dribble in the lane for defenders to swipe at it)

As a BBall coach myself they should really both be taught.  Some players will be better at one over the other and they are also used for two different situations.  the 1-2 is more of a blow by while the 2 foot is more of a hesistaion type space creating move.  In a perfect world the player learns to recognize when which one should be used.

Hey, I'm old school, and at the risk of sounding like James Naismith, I think they should both be illegal.  It bugs me that the rule was changed somewhere along the line to make these moves legal.  When I was in high school (sometime after some genius decided to cut a hole in the bottom of the peachbaskets) if you left the floor after you picked up your dribble, whether off of one foot or two, you could not come back down and still have possession of the ball - that was a travel.  These guys are supposed to be the best athletes in all of sports, you can't tell me they couldn't play within the rules of the "old game."  I think it makes it difficult for the refs to discern whether  a player has traveled or not.  I live in Atlanta -arguable the city where the jump stop was, if not born, certainly where it was mastered - Dominique "The Human Highlight Film" Wilkins.  So when a player leaves his feet with the ball, then comes back down with it, how long can he hold it before he must shoot or pass in order to avoid a travel?  And if he does it in the backcourt, or at the top of the key, is it automatically a travel because the presumption is he is not making a move to the basket?  Sorry, I just don't like either move.

Technically the two footed jump stop is really no different than a pivot. 

If you are talking about the stop just before a pullup jump shot, the best stop is what we used to call a two count stop where you plant the back foot with your weight over it and almost simultaneously brace your stop with the front foot-----gives you the best chance for an on balance stop and a quick release off that stop!

The jump stop doesn't give you the same amount of balance as a platform for the jump shot----however the "jump hop"
has it's advantages to clear the finish in and around the hoop!