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Please rad my full initial post. I never differentiated on the waist high tap. I said you could easily interpret that act alone as a hold (it looks entirely different than your normal rebound tap). You have a hold, followed by air dribbles - traveling. Doesn't matter if you held it first. It sounds to me a lot like a carry in dribbling (hand directly under the ball facing up), so I can't see that if someone chose this ridiculous way of going down the court that you would have to allow it. Then again, I can't imagine why anyone would choose to do this!
Similarly, if a player began a series of taps at one end and kept the ball over his head all the way down the court, at some point in time I would think you could rule that they held it for an instant (and they probably would). However, it would in this case have to be a little more obvious on the control. and once again, because this is not inherently a controlling action, a player is highly unlikely to want to cover the entire court in this manner when they could simply dribble.
Now the normal rebound tap. If it is a tap in a direction, tapper A1 moves to the next point where the ball comes down and is met by a defensive challenger B1, A1 taps again, moves and is met by B2, A1 taps again moves and catches the ball, that is different than trying to navigate the entire court with air dribbles. In this case, there is no player control unless you see a clear act of one-handed catching.
I played water polo, in which only one handed catches are permitted, so they can happen. It would look like a hand extended, meeting the ball and collapsing with it, hand and ball coming to rest with the wrist cocked, and then a throwing movement. And the stop should be pronounced, so that it is clear that the next action is a throw rather than a tap (i.e., it should always be called a tap unless it is obviously and unmistakably a catch first). If you see this catching and throwing action, then you have catch (establishing player control), toss, player movement, and catch - that would be traveling if the ball doesn't contact the floor. But that type of action on a rebound is very rare.
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