Originally Posted by Snaqwells (Post 574768)

Mark, I agree with your conclusion, but I disagree with this portion. A player does not need to hold the ball before he can start dribbling. Imagine this scenario where, instead of grabbing it after he slaps it, he keeps slapping it towards the floor. That's a dribble, but he never held it (this happens all the time.)

So, the question is, at what point do you consider a player to have established control by dribbling even though he never held the ball?

Originally Posted by Snaqwells (Post 574768)

Mark, I agree with your conclusion, but I disagree with this portion. A player does not need to hold the ball before he can start dribbling. Imagine this scenario where, instead of grabbing it after he slaps it, he keeps slapping it towards the floor. That's a dribble, but he never held it (this happens all the time.)

So, the question is, at what point do you consider a player to have established control by dribbling even though he never held the ball?

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. (Post 575043)

Snaqs:

One obvious situation is when the player's hands are so big the basketball looks like a tennis ball in his hands, :D. But I understand, what you are saying. I am speaking in general terms. The situations about which you are attempting to describe are the HTBT type and that is why we are paid the big bucks ($'s) to make those decisions.

MTD, Sr.


P.S. What Tony just said before me.

Originally Posted by bob jenkins (Post 574922)

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