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Originally Posted by bucky
I would change the word "holding" to "controlling." Consider walking down the floor while continuously controlling the ball by tipping/tapping it in the air over and over. This controlled tipping/tapping would be traveling imo but yet the ball is not being held. i prefer the word controlled. Just my 2 cents.
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Incorrect. Holding is the correct word. What you described is an illegal dribble.
Rule 4-15 DRIBBLE:
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ART. 2 . . . During a dribble the ball may be batted into the air provided it is permitted to strike the floor before the ball is touched again with the hand(s).
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Since it isn't allowed to hit the floor, that makes it an illegal dribble.
If "controlling" were what made it a travel, a normal dribble would then be a travel.