Backcourt on "controlled tap"?

[Camron Rust]

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.

Exactly.

I worked with a partner a couple weeks ago, one who fancies himself as somewhat of a rules expert, who called a double dribble deep in my primary when on a rebound a player batted the ball away from the crowd, chased the ball down, picked it up, then started a dribble.

Same partner called a T for hanging on the rim when a defender was entangled in shooters legs because the shooter didn't immediate dangle and held him self up a moment (not a chin-up)...and he knew the defender was there.