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Originally posted by Paul LeBoutillier
We were having a discussion meeting this past week with coaches and officials for a private school league that I do games for from time to time, and the subject of palming or carrying the ball came up. I was making the point that the ball handler's palm must be facing up and the ball must momentarily come to rest in the palm for the call to be made and a couple of the officials mentioned that a palming/carrying call could be made if the dribbler's palm was sideways. Have any of you seen this in the rulebook???
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Paul,
The hand can be anywhere on the ball (bottom, side, top, front, back) for a palming/carrying violation to be called.
I think that was a P.O.E. couple years ago. (...just gave Also, last two years books to my daughter who is starting to coach jr.High).
NCAA put out a video tape (also a few years ago) with regard to illegal dribbling and if your association, or league can get hold of that, it should open up some new ideas for you.
I think the lack of description in the "books" underscores the problem of giving everyone a clear picture of "What is that?"
mick