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Originally Posted by M&M Guy
You still haven't shown me definitely in the rules where the OP cannot be a dribble, only that you have inserted your ideas about a "throw", etc. without any rule or interp backing on that term.
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I can't...and have said earlier that I could easily make arguments for both the illegal dribble and the traveling. My angle was to point out the reasons why a travel could be a valid call.
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Originally Posted by M&M Guy
I'm still looking for the interp that mentions the play we've talked about before, where A1 attempts to pass the ball to A2, but A2 doesn't see it and runs away. A1 then runs after it and is the first to retrieve it. The ruling was it is considered a dribble, and if A1 had used their dribble prior to the attempted pass, it would be a dribble violation, but if A1 had not used their dribble, the throw and catch would be considered a dribble. Perhaps it's an NCAA ruling? This would pretty much settle the whole discussion, wouldn't it?
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Not really. That case includes the ball bouncing on the floor. So, it wouldn't settle anything about whether a ball tossed into the air and caught before landing is a dribble (illegal dribble).
In fact, the another case play that is just as close covers a player tossing the ball into the air and catching it without moving their feet. The ruling in that case is that such action is not a dribble or a travel.