Don't have my books here, and too lazy to walk out to the car on a Saturday morning - but doesn't the case play involving the player placing ball on floor, standing up, then picking up the ball say that the player has committed a traveling violation? If so, what does that have to do with this argument about illegal dribble???:confused:

This is specifically forbidden by the case play. 4.44.5 B

This is not specifically forbidden by anything.

The real irony here is that the inconsistency you highlight is an example of the problem with your argument. The ruling on the sliding player scenario is an exception, and is completely inconsistent with the traveling ruling. Now you want to "solve the problem" by introducing another exception, this one completely inconsistent with the dribbling rule.

There is reasonable justification for the exceptional ruling on traveling, what is is the justification for an exception to the dribbling rule?

Well my interpretations are from the FIBA rules

Rolling the ball is a dribble by the FIBA Rules art 13. How the ball is played and art 24 Dribbling .

So if you consider that as the player placed the ball on the floor the ball rolled, even if half milimeter, when he holds the ball back, this causes the end of the dribble and he must pass/shoot the ball.

If it is an exception, then why was it used a few pages back to add proof that it is a dribble? Shouldn't an exception ONLY be used for it's specific case?
Can't have it both ways.....

As I said earlier, our local assignor calls it a dribble, (setting the ball down, wiping his socks, picking up again) but yet another referee I saw by chance Sunday (from another association) says it is a loose ball and he may pick up and dribble................

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Yep.

Thus we have 7 pages and 95+ responses on this one. The fact is, the rule book doesn\'t define this action to be anything at all.