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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by JRutledge
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You have to have Team Control or Player Control before the ball can be set in the frontcourt by rule. And during a throw-in, neither can be present until someone grabs and takes control of the ball. [/B]
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Why do they have to "grab" the ball on the throw-in to establish team or player control?
Do you have a rules citation that will back that statement up? Can't they establish player control,and thus team control,by just tapping the ball to the floor with one hand and then dribbling,or even just dribbling immediately when they first touch the ball-without grabbing the ball at any time? [/B][/QUOTE]
OK JR, you do not have to grab the ball at all.
I am so sorry that folks like yourself cannot understand that you need to establish some kind of ball control (not the wording in the rulebook I might add) in order to even have a backcourt violation. Usually a player "grabs the ball" to gain possession. If we use your logic, then we would have double dribbles all day long. Give a player the benefit of the doubt (use common sense) and make sure they do something other than taping at the ball in order to rule possession or player control or team control. So if you want to rule that a single bounce to the floor as an established a dribble, so be it. Unless they tap the ball to the floor several times, I am not constituting that a dribble for one tap to the floor. And it is very common to see a player tap the ball to the floor once and then grab the ball. If that is a dribble (even know technically they might have control of the ball) I am going to use good judgement and common sense and say it was not.
Peace