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Old Wed Dec 12, 2007, 12:14am
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by jdw3018
If you judge he intentionally bounced the ball off the board and it wasn't a try, then it was an illegal dribble. Don't have my books right now, so sorry for no citation.

If it were me, I'd want to be awful sure he was really trying to "pass it to himself" off the board and not actually making a try at the hoop...
Intent doesn't matter. If the ball hits the backboard, the player is free to catch it or even dribble again.
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