Backcourt on "controlled tap"?

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

College fraternities successfully removed this phrase from their vocabulary a long time ago.

Must every thread include a lame joke from you?

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

We really need to get the phrase "controlled tap" out of our vocabulary. So many people, including officials, use this phrase, but there's no such thing in basketball. The only way to control the ball, by rule, is to HOLD or DRIBBLE a live ball. That's it. That's the list.

If we just forget about a "controlled tap" and ask whether the ball was held or dribbled, we'll be a lot better off.

We try, Scrapper. But two or three times a year, somebody still posts this question.

Why? I don't know.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Must every thread include a lame joke from you?

No. Not every thread. Just when I see an inviting straight line.

BktBallRef: How did your read my post? I figured, for sure, that I was on your ignore list.

Although I take basketball officiating very seriously, it's still a game, a game that I've been, in one way, or another, participating in for over forty-five years. Basketball is supposed to be fun. Officiating is both very serious, and fun, for me. Posting on the Forum is both serious, and fun, for me. Too bad that you can't read this paragraph, because if you hadn't already put me on your ignore list, then you certainly did after I reminded you in my first paragraph.

I do occasionally ask a good question, or offer a good answer, in some threads. And I challenge you, or anyone else on this Forum, to find a single post authored by me in which I have offended anyone, insulted anyone, or called anyone a name. I respect all Forum members, look up to some as them, including BktBallRef, as officiating rule, and role, models, try to make serious contributions to the Forum, and at the same time, try to have some "silly" fun.

If that's wrong, then I don't want to be right.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

No. Not every thread. Just when I see an inviting straight line.

Great.

Originally Posted by refiator

Simple. Some people aren't on this post 24/7 to see everything that comes across.

I don't know anyone that's on here 24/7.

[BballRookie]

My two cents:

In response to it being said that this question is posted on here every year: maybe it should be. The life blood of every forum on the internet is a combination of new users and old users. In this situation we have new officials who are curious (me) and learning (me) and we have a officials who have been at it for a while and discovered this forum long ago. With new officials joining all the time the "old timers" will probably have to be patient and deal with these inquiries.

Personally, I think it's silly to assume that everyone knows the answer to these questions or were on this forum 3 years ago with when somebody brought up a similar topic.

And.. yes, you can do a search by topic, but with the rules changing ever so slightly all the time so isn't it safer to ask instead of reading a post from 2004?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BballRookie

My two cents:

In response to it being said that this question is posted on here every year: maybe it should be. The life blood of every forum on the internet is a combination of new users and old users. In this situation we have new officials who are curious (me) and learning (me) and we have a officials who have been at it for a while and discovered this forum long ago. With new officials joining all the time the "old timers" will probably have to be patient and deal with these inquiries.

Personally, I think it's silly to assume that everyone knows the answer to these questions or were on this forum 3 years ago with when somebody brought up a similar topic.

And.. yes, you can do a search by topic, but with the rules changing ever so slightly all the time so isn't it safer to ask instead of reading a post from 2004?

It's not the repeated questions that surprise me, nor even the frequency. It's the nature of some of them. This particular question implies that the poster doesn't know the basics of player and team control. I shouldn't be surprised, given that there are plenty of playoff-level high school officials who don't know the basics like this. But it is a basic, in that player and team control affect so many rulings; not knowing this means you're really guessing on a lot of plays.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by BballRookie

Personally, I think it's silly to assume that everyone .... were on this forum 3 years ago with when somebody brought up a similar topic.

No assumption necessary. All I have to do is read the part of the OP's bio that says February 2009.

By definition, there's no such thing as a "controlled tap." Therefore, since knowing the definitions is the foundation of rule knowledge, I think Snaq is correct that many are playing a guessing game. No offense intended to the OP.

[refiator]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

. But two or three times a year, somebody still posts this question.

Why? I don't know.

Simple. Some people aren't on this post 24/7 to see everything that comes across.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by refiator

Simple. Some people aren't on this post 24/7 to see everything that comes across.

That's not the surprising part to me.