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Old Mon Jan 26, 2009, 04:57pm
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A1 cutting to the basket and A2 passes him the ball. A1 while running bobbles the ball without having caught it cleanly. He then gains control and scores.

As I'm coming back down bench side, opposing coach tells me "That's illegal. That's an air dribble." He says he reffed for 5 years and he knows that's illegal.

I explained that a)I know nothing about an air dribble and b)can't be a travel if control was not established. He kept going back to the air dribble.

As you can imagine, we were finished at that point.
There once was an air dribble. It was the batting of the ball up into the air repeatedly without letting it hit the floor. In the beginning, the rule only said you couldn't run while holding the ball. So, clever players invented the air dribble. It was made illegal sometime after that as it was a nearly indefensable method of moving the ball down the court.

The question in your case was whether it was an air dribbler (a contolled action) or a muff (no control).
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Old Mon Jan 26, 2009, 05:31pm
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Camron is correct. The NFHS basketball handbook has a good description which I posted a couple of months ago.

http://forum.officiating.com/showpos...5&postcount=36
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