What Can The Player DO Now???

[Buck Wu]

Originally posted by rainmaker

Okay, what about put the ball on the floor and hold it down while getting up but never pick up the ball. Hold it until someone else came and got it. I saw this happen and had no clue what to think!! I gave the kid the no-call for being creative (the other coach didn't feel quite so charitable)

It is traveling per the case book play (4.43.5B). The player cannot put the ball on the floor and then rise and be the "first to touch the ball" This play may be creative, but it is still a travel. Now, if he set it there and got up and did not touch it, but kind of guarded it then it is nothing. He can't be the first to touch when getting off the floor.