legal or illegal dribble

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by mick

Then it is a dribble when no longer holding...?

Scrapper1,
The player pushed it [away from himself] to the floor. He did not bat it, pull it, or hold it. He pushed it.
If releasing the ball don't make no nevermind, why in the world would it be included in the wording ?
Sell me.

Push: to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away. "To the floor" indicates motion in a direction, and describes a dynamic relationship between the ball and floor.

Newton would insist that one property of an object that is being/has been pushed is that it continues in motion, in the same direction, once the motivating force is removed.

OTOH, the OP said "A1 places the ball on the floor". Place indicates an object has been moved, in a completely controlled manner, to a new location without imparting independent force to it. An object that has been placed will not continue in motion. "On the floor" indicates a location without implying motion, it describes static relationship.

Which one of those actions actually describes a dribble? Imparting a force to the ball, putting it in motion toward the floor, removing the force at some point while the ball continues in motion, where it will participate in a dynamic relationship with the floor...or...Moving the ball, in a controlled manner, to a new location on the floor, where it remains motionless?

Pushing the ball to the floor, is a very different act than placing the ball on the floor. To argue that placing is a form of pushing is wrong.