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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
It's relevant to the status of the ball, IMO. If there is no PC, how can the ball maintain BC status?
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I'm fleshing this out, and I'm probably going to land on your side before it's all said and done. My only point right now is the rule isn't as clear cut as some seem to be saying it is. We're having to infer a few things here.
1. The rule simply says "during a dribble".
2. The rules define when a dribble starts, when it ends, and when it's interrupted. Nowhere does it say that the time of interruption is excluded from the "during" portion that, to me, without explicit statements to the contrary, would include the time between the beginning and end of the dribble. We can potentially infer this, but it's not stated.
It may well be there intent, but that's only a guess and to claim otherwise is getting ahead of ourselves, IMO.