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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
And if he doesn't touch the ball again after pushing the ball to the floor, then he hasn't dribbled again. There is no "continue the dribble". He didn't continue anything.
It's that simple.
If you use your definition, you would have to call an illegal second dribble every time a player ended a dribble and then threw a bounce pass.
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The rules, taken with the case plays, do leave room for debate on this. The judgment of an official (not one's ability to "read minds") is a common part of interpreting how the rules are to be applied (was it a shot attempt or a pass? was the contact intentional or incidental? etc.), and the key to defining the point at which a double dribble occurs seems to be whether the official determines that a pass was attempted or a dribble was to be continued. If a pass was attempted, then the dribbler must touch the ball again before the pass can be ruled a dribble; if, in the judgment of the official, a second dribble was begun, then the violation is immediate.