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Originally Posted by BillyMac
From Jurassic Referee: " It is legal to bounce contact the ball with 2 hands at the end of a dribble. You also can always legally start a dribble by bouncing the ball with both hands."
Jurassic Referee's statement correctly describes a power dribble move often used by post players. Catch the ball with two hands with your back to the basket, start your dribble with two hands, moving at an angle toward the basket, after only one dribble, catch the ball with both hands, begin to take a step to the basket and make the layup.
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Actually, I don't believe that the wording of the first part is correct. I would phrase it as I've amended.
As you state a power dribble is a legal move, but that is because the bouncing of the ball with both hands comes at the start of the dribble, not at the end of it. I can't think of any situation in which it would be legal to bounce the ball with two hands at the end of a dribble. The power dribble is the only action that gives this appearance because the dribble is terminated after the single bounce, but if a player has bounced the ball several times and has player control then the statement in question isn't true.