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Is wheelchair basketball at a crossroads? Would a proposed rule change have a positive or negtive impact on the game?
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Under the current rule, following two pushes, athletes must shoot, pass, or dribble the ball.
Thiboutot (retired coach and 1-point player, former vice president of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association and the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation, and former president of the IWBF Technical Commission for rules) discusses the pros, while Strohkendl (P.E. teacher at Germany's University of Cologne, former president of the IWBF Technical Commission for rules, and coach of the medal-winning women's Paralympic team in 1976 and '78) relates the cons of changing the current wheelchair-basketball dribbling rule. The proposed change would adopt a modified version of the dribbling rule that governs the able-bodied game.
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