legal or illegal dribble

[CoachP]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

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?

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................

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by CoachP

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.....

Yep.

Originally Posted by CoachP

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................

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.