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Old Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:44pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by bob jenkins View Post
Technically, no.

You can bounce the ball to yourself, though.
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Originally Posted by Nevadaref View Post
And the reason for Bob's answer is that the dribbling and traveling rules don't apply during a throw-in. See the Rules Fundamentals near the back of the book.
Interesting. I always interpreted that to mean the limitations on dribbling don't apply....that a player isn't required to do so legally. But, that it was still a dribble when a player is bouncing the ball but can't commit a dribbling (or traveling) violation.

It is just semantics and we get to the same spot either way, but I've just thought about it differently.
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