Palming the ball

[MisterLucky]

The palming call on Marble the other night is just ridiculous. The refs could call palming on practically every trip down court but for whatever reason, they tend to call it on our players. Just another case of selective enforcement.

 

[GravyJones]

Carrying?

 

[iowamike21]

You're right Mister Lucky. This call really bugs me because I'm old enough to have played when dribbling meant keeping your hand on TOP of the ball at ALL times. Anything less than that was palming, or carrying, and it was an easy call. Of course the NBA, where almost anything is allowed, has influenced players at all levels, so for many years players have been coming up thinking you can, in fact, carry the ball. But this isn't rugby. I HATE the way they let carrying the ball go MOST of the time, then suddenly call it out of the blue. And so I agree with your observation about the call on Marble.

 

[conn53victor]

There was the year that NCAA decided to call palming really closely. I believe it was Andre Woolridge that had to break a life long habit that had been perfectly fine the previous season.

 

[Sirhouseman]

The call scares me because I think the Bryce palms/carries quite a bit. I'm glad they don't call it as close. As for the example you cited, I agree, it was questionable.

 

[TChawk]

this call and be called pretty much anytime somebody dribbles the ball anymore...it is just stupid by the refs to only call it once in awhile....either call it all the time or just don't call it at all..

 

[bcl20]

You're right Mister Lucky. This call really bugs me because I'm old enough to have played when dribbling meant keeping your hand on TOP of the ball at ALL times. Anything less than that was palming, or carrying, and it was an easy call. Of course the NBA, where almost anything is allowed, has influenced players at all levels, so for many years players have been coming up thinking you can, in fact, carry the ball. But this isn't rugby. I HATE the way they let carrying the ball go MOST of the time, then suddenly call it out of the blue. And so I agree with your observation about the call on Marble.

That's not the rule.

And they don't let everything go in the NBA, at all.

 

[storminspank]

There was the year that NCAA decided to call palming really closely. I believe it was Andre Woolridge that had to break a life long habit that had been perfectly fine the previous season.

Yep. And they made it an emphasis a few years back too (maybe 3 years ago?). It was ridiculous for the first 5 games of the season, they were calling everything.