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Treating the object as a particle. The answer is no. Just like an object cant be moving left and right at the same time. Angular momentum is a vector quantity. The momentum vectors would combine to somewhere in the middle, similar to velocity vectors.

But an object is made up of many particles. Imagine a sphere of water surrounded by a plastic shell. The plastic shell can move a different direction than the water inside if you roll it for a while, then drop and reverse directions. It takes the water a bit to catch up.