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Old Fri Dec 07, 2018, 12:05pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by bucky View Post
Think you are answering your own question. Would not the words "touch to prevent" = control?
No.

Control != Player Control.

A tap for a goal is controlled but it isn't player control.

Control, for the purposes of the traveling rule required holding the ball...no hold, no travel. Briefly pinning the ball between a hand and the floor isn't holding to me.
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