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[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by CJP

Where does it say that you HAVE to establish player control to establish team control? This make a descent argument against that.

It is a fundamental concept of the rules.

Here, for one:

ART. 5 . . . Team control does not exist during a jump ball or the touching of a rebound, but is reestablished when a player secures control.

Here is another, form the fundamentals at the front and in Rule 4:

While the ball remains live, a loose ball always remains in control of the team whose player last had control, unless it is a try or tap for goal.

That pretty much says that it stays with the prior team until the new team establishes player control. It wouldn't be any different from a situation with no team control.