Referee mag question

[ronny mulkey]

This post has cause a running discussion with a friend of mine where we questioned did placing the ball on the floor create player control or team control? We have been back and forth on this. But, it created another question in my mind on a practice I've done for years. For years I have always placed a ball on the floor in situations not resumption in nature (not following a TO or intermission). For example, I can't get Team A to come get the ball after a normal violation call on Team B, such as traveling. No matter what I did, I couldn't get a player over there. After some point, I placed the ball on the floor and began counting. Is this wrong?