legal or illegal dribble

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Originally Posted by Nevadaref

So you are going to contend that no force was applied and that there was no motion involved in getting the ball to that location? How ridiculous.

Look, if simply applying a downward force met the definition of "pushing the ball to the floor", then holding the ball and touching to the floor would be a dribble, wouldn't it? You're pushing the ball to the floor, and the ball strikes the floor. That's got to be a dribble. But the rules specifically tell us it's not. So your version of "pushing" doesn't meet the requirement of a dribble.