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Originally posted by Bart Tyson
The guide line we have been given to judge control is, no control until they grab it with two hands.
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If that is your guideline, follow it in your area. And it is the right guideline 90% of the time or more, so it makes the call much simpler to get right.
However, you clearly can achieve control of a basketball without putting a second hand on the ball. So if your "powers that be" do not demand that you have two hands in orer to achieve player control, I would leave it to the official's judgment as to whether the player had control with one hand. And since most of the time they don't have control with one hand, you should err on the side of no control unless you are absolutely positive that the player had control. In this case, it sounds like the official was positive and made a good call.