[bob jenkins]

Originally posted by Mark Padgett
If you feel having one or two hands on top of the ball while on the floor puts that player in player control, then you have a travel. However, remember that the definition of player control is "holding or dribbling a live ball inbounds", so it would seem to me that having a hand (or two) on top of a ball that is resting on the floor is not the same as holding it. To hold it, I would think it would have to be between your hands or resting on one or both hands.

If the situation was exactly as you described it, and the player had never held the ball while on the floor before just having his hand or hands on top of it, I have a no call.

It might depend on the level. Most boys in HS, even at the frosh level can palm the ball.