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Originally Posted by jdw3018
If it did, a player could back down from the FT line to the goal with a dozen dribbles over 5 seconds...
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Which is my entire issue with the way this rule is written.
Too much is left to individual interpretation.
The rule does not say "
dribbles in immediately", "
immediately dribbles in", nor "
dribbles and moves immediately."
It gives two options: either to
dribble in OR
move immediatley to try for goal.
But, I think we may all agree that backing-down is not in the spirit (whatever that means) of how this rule is written and intended to be administered... even though backing-down is still a form of dribbling in to try for goal.
