Thread: Not dribbling?
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Old Fri Nov 22, 2002, 08:36am
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Think about this

As I read the discussion, these questions come to mind:

What would the ruling/status be if A1 receives a pass an then:

1. Sets the ball on the floor and picks it up again without moving any feet.

2. Sets the ball on the floor, ball rolls 5 feet, A1 moves both feet in order to pick it up again.

3. Sets the ball on the floor, ball rolls 1 foot, A1 pivots to pick it up again?

My personal opinion is to treat each of these as a dribble and therefore a legal move. Yet I can see arguments going both ways (the elements of a dribble - release of ball, ball touches floor; and the case of a traveling violation when a player on the floor puts the ball down to stand up).

The reason I set forth the three examples above is that the ball moves on the floor in all of the examples, even though in example 1 the movement of the ball on the floor could be unpreceptable.
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