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Originally posted by ByTheBook
Detroit player brings the ball up the court dribbling the ball and is currently walking the ball. As he nears and crosses half court he lets the ball bounce alongside him and with both hands calls out a play, after he calls out a play he does what can only be described as a sequence of hops(show boating). After this he returns to dribbling the ball and moves tries to drive past the defender.
Now I thought it was a traveling violation because he took at least six steps in the sequence of hops after dribbling and begins dribbling again. I am very confused as to how this could be anything other than a travel.
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When I read this, it sounds to me as though the player never finished his dribble. A dribble ends only when the dribbler catches or carries/palms the ball by allowing it to come to rest in one or both hands, when the dribbler touches the ball with both hands simultaneously, when an opponent bats the ball, or the ball becomes dead. (NCAA rules; NFHS rules may differ.) Since none of these things happened, the player was dribbling the whole time, even though the ball bounced several times without anyone touching it. You cannoy travel while dribbling, so no travel. Also no double dribble, since the original dribble never ended.
I noticed while looking up the definition that a player while dribbling touching the ball with both hands, but not simultaneously, in between bounces during a dribble, does not seem to end the dribble. (Imagine: bounce, touch with left hand, touch with right hand, bounce.) Can anyone find a reference that says that this is illeagal under NCAA rules?