View Single Post
  #68 (permalink)  
Old Fri Nov 21, 2008, 01:43pm
just another ref just another ref is offline
We don't rent pigs
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 7,627
while we're splitting hairs.....

Quote:
Originally Posted by CoachP View Post
In all reality, I cannot envision a player setting the ball down slow enough that it doesn't roll even slightly. It moves a hair and you have the "infinitely smallest" definition of a push; therefore the start of a dribble.
The definition of a dribble includes the phrase "pushes the ball to the floor." The infinitely small push you refer to here occurs after the ball is placed on the floor.
__________________
I swear, Gus, you'd argue with a possum.
It'd be easier than arguing with you, Woodrow.


Lonesome Dove
Reply With Quote