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Originally posted by blindzebra
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Originally posted by ysong
I have a rather simple question about dribbling too regard "steps".
if a fast moving dribbler, while keep his/her hand on top of the ball (hand facing mostly downward, less than or around 90 degree), manages to run more than 2 steps with the ball still in contact with that hand, before the ball leaves the hand and bounce again, the dribbler does not violate any dribble rules, is that right?
the assumption is that the dribbler does not "palm" the ball (hold it with fingers).
Thanks.
ysong
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There is a rhythm to a dribble, the number of steps between bounces does not matter, what matters is the spaces between the bounces while the ball is on the hand.
If a player is dribbling bounce...bounce...bounce...bounce and suddenly you have bounce............bounce something probably happened involving stopping the dribble. A carry or double dribble has likely occured.
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I think if you call illegal dribbles based on this, you will get a lot of them wrong. Good dribblers can vary the time interval between dribbles while remaining quite legal. Even I can vary it if I'm not actually trying to make much of a move at the same time. It depends on how close to the ground they push it back down and how hard they do so.