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Old Fri Mar 22, 2013, 09:23am
HawkeyeCubP HawkeyeCubP is offline
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Originally Posted by Camron Rust View Post
You're missing my point. The only valid answer to the question is "unknown" or "so far". You may not know what it is until something else happens. But, if it is a dribble, it was, by definition, so the moment it left the hand. You just have to wait in order to know. The question is incomplete. If it it turns out that it was a dribble, the actual violation occurred when it was released. Returning to the hand just confirms that it was a dribble.
Gotcha. Semantically speaking, however, if it were written and rephrased as a true/false question, however, the answer would be "true."
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Last edited by HawkeyeCubP; Fri Mar 22, 2013 at 12:03pm. Reason: Edited to throw in some more "howevers" in the reason-for-editing line.
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