Player Control....When?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Gimlet25id

Here's the play that started this conversation...

A1 fumbles the ball in their frontcourt near the timeline. B1 instead of catching the loose ball intentionally pushes the ball to the floor with both of his feet in his frontcourt/"A's" backcourt, where the ball hits the timeline and bounces back up where B1 just continues to dribble the ball back into his backcourt.

It seems to me that B's first dribble was still in the BC (the "three-points" rule), so this wouldn't be a violation.