Basket Interference/Goaltending

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Originally Posted by zm1283

Speaking of not knowing the rules: I had a coach tell me tonight that on a held ball, the ball had to be simultaneously possessed for three seconds before it could be a held ball. We're playing in Missouri and it's teams from all over, and they're from Michigan. He said something about it being a Michigan high school rule. I asked if he was serious.

WTF is that. The idea is to prevent undo roughness. Three seconds is an awful long time to have to hold a ball to have a duel possession/jump ball. I would ignore him.