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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
That's my understanding of the rule. You'd only have a violation if you called the dribbler for deliberately playing the ball with the foot(aka a deliberate kicked ball). But's that's a different scenario than the OP and a different violation entirely.
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Before reading the case play, my understanding of the rule was that not only did the player have to hit the ball twice with his hands between bounces, but it had to happen after he batted the ball "in the air."
The reasoning in the case play, however, leads one to your conclusion.
In practice, though, I'm not sure there's any way I'd be able to see the ball didn't hit the floor.