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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
I can't believe he was serious either then.
Simply holding the ball does not equate to team control ever. A player can stand at the scorers table at half time holding on to the game ball. That doesn't mean that his team now has control and the other team is on defense.
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This is exactly right except under ncaa rules for throw in.
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If there's no team control, there's no defender.
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Well, here it gets trickier. Certainly for the purposes of time out only "the offense" can be granted a time out during a throw in. So thinking in terms of offense/defense helps for at least this situation. Not sure it helps elsewhere though, not worth bothering with IMO
But I agree with your over-all message.