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Originally Posted by Da Official

Scenario #1: Player A1 is dribbling ball in front court. She attempts a drop off pass where she slightly taps the ball to another player A2. Unfortunately A1 and A2 or not on the same page and A1 has to retrieve the pass/fumble and continued to dribble. Note she never picked the ball up at any time.

Partner stops play and calls a double dribble (because "she attempted a pass" his words)


Scenario #2: Team A is has a throw-in underneath the basket in the front court. A1 throws a high pass to A2 who jumps in the air and touches the ball but it continues past her into the backcourt. A2 runs into the backcourt to get it. Before A2 touches the ball Coach A says "once you touch it, its backcourt". I am the Trail and run back with A2. A2 then begins to dribble the loose ball. I hold my whistle because I am thinking to myself team control was not established until A2 started dribbling, my partner calls a backcourt violation from the other side of the division line. No one complained but I felt that was not the right call.

Can the brothers help me out?

I don't know about the brothers -- you know how men are. But here's a sister who might help.

I'd say neither was a violation, but your first case depends on your definition of "picking the ball up". If she attempted the pass by one-handedly bouncing the ball to her teammate, and then retrieved it in the same one-handed way, it's definitely not a violation. It may or may not be a fumble, but even if it's not a fumble, the dribble never ended, since she did never touched it with two hands, nor palmed/carried.

Second case: no team control in frontcourt, tip doesn't count as team control.