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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
I am confused by the coming to rest concept. By definition, a ball that changes direction at some point is in a state of zero upward or downward motion. At this moment of change the ball is, however briefly, at rest. When it hits the floor, it bounces and has no real pause. But the dribble is not a bouncing motion off the hand, it involves control, a temporary stoppage of motion. At what point are you controlling the ball, and at what point have you crossed the line and allowed the ball to come to a state of rest? How do you as an official judge this? And what do fakes by the rest of the body have to do with this issue?
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The guidelines (and that's all they are) that I use is that one change of direction is okay; more than one is not. So, the ball can go "down" in any single direction -- if it came up on the right, it can go down on the left (or forward, or back, or diagonal, ...). But, if the ball starts down on the right, then the player changes it (in the middle of pushing it down) to the left (or forward or back), that's a violation.