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Old Tue Sep 21, 2004, 08:47am
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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Quote:
Originally posted by rainmaker
Quote:
Originally posted by Mark Dexter
You can't wait and see what the player does afterwards to end/continue the dribble.
Why not? That's what you'd do if the dribbler tapped the ball over the head of the defender and then ran around. You wouldn't blow the whistle until you saw whether the dribbler let it bounce or not, before touching it.
That's because the violation in that case is on the touching - you're not waiting to see if they can make something legal, you're waiting to see if they do something illegal. In this case, the violation results from being OOB, not from touching the ball a second time - call it when you see it.
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