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self:
"Websters definition of holding is "to take and keep with hands" it doesn't say anything has to be at rest. So I can screen you with by body while I tap the ball up in the air and I am holding it away from you."
What do you think TAKE and KEEP mean, if not holding the ball?
I haven't worked basketball in years, but have found my FED 1993-94 Case Book. Here's what it says:
4.15.4D. Play: (a) A1 tosses the ball from one hand to the other while keeping his or her pivot foot in contact with the floor; or (b) A1 throws the ball over the head of B1 and then takes several steps before catching it. Ruling: Legal in (a), but a traveling violation in (b). In (b), A1 may not move his or her pivot foot without violating. Since the ball did not touch the floor, the tossing and subsequent catch is not part of a dribble nor is it the start and end of a dribble.
Therefore, passing or batting the ball back and forth while moving, without the ball touching the floor, is a VIOLATION.
Bob
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