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Originally posted by ShoeBall
1) It would be legal for a dribbler to for instance while dribbling up the court and if heavily defended, throw (or tap or push or whatever) the ball around the defender and then resume dribbling no matter how many times the ball had subsequently bounced without the dribbler. This seems like it would be legal because it could be argued that since it was a planned move by the dribbler (especially if it was accomplished oh so convincingly), the dribbler did not lose "control" (whatever "control" means).
Is an example like this legal and i am just not aware of it?
2) As i remember (could be wrong) there used to be a statement in the Rules and Regulations something like, "the dribbler cannot dribble the ball at a height above the dribbler's head". But this is nowhere to be found now. Has it become legal all of a sudden for a dribbler to dribble the ball at a height above his head? So that for instance, the dribbler could dribble over the head of the defender? Surely not! And surely this type of move would not be considered lose of control! What's going on here????
3) This is a sort of combination of 1) and 2) I guess.
The hypothetical move is that the dribbler bounces the ball over the defenders head in the motion of dribbling and resumes the dribble on the other side. A Sort of big hop dribble. I'm sorry, but it seems the Rules as posted on NBA.com have been gutted or something and there is no longer any declaration ensuring these sort of hypothetical moves are illegal!!!!!!!!
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1)This is legal and always has been. The only things that would make any part of this move illegal would be (a) if the ball came to rest in the dribbler's hand when he tapped it over the defender's head-or(b)if the dribbler touched the tapped ball twice in the air before it bounced again. Same rule in NCAA and high school.
2) There never has been a rule in the NBA, NCAA or high school that restricted the height to which you could dribble to head-high.
3) This isn't illegal either and never has been.
ShoeBall, the only things generally that make any dribble illegal during that dribble are the dribbler letting the ball come to rest in his hand and then dribbling again, touching the ball with both hands simultaneously and then dribbling again, or touching the ball twice while it's in the air on the same dribble.
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