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Old Wed Sep 08, 2004, 09:43am
DownTownTonyBrown DownTownTonyBrown is offline
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Quote:
Originally posted by zebraman
...What's an air dribble?
As I understand the original rules

http://www.ukans.edu/heritage/graphi.../naismith.html

"#3 A player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on which he catches it, allowance to be made for a man running at good speed."

A player could throw the ball to himself!... basically dribbling in the air rather than off the floor.

I thought I had seen the "air dribble" term used somewhere else but can't fnd it now. I don't know that this was the case but I believe I read somewhere on the net that the "air dribble" was an allowed part of the original game.
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