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Old Wed Dec 21, 2016, 03:20pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by Rock'nRef View Post
Thanks for the reply but can you point out where it states this in the rule book? As far as I read, a dribble begins when the ball is intentionally pushed or batted "to" the floor. I guess that we can assume that "to" implies that the ball actually reached the floor.
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Originally Posted by TSYouthSports View Post
A dribble would have to constitute returning to the dribbler. Otherwise a bounce pass (ball is intentionally pushed to the floor) would be considered a dribble.
Rock'nRef is correct.

While we may wait to see where it goes, the dribble does begin when it leaves the hand being pushed the floor.
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