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Submariner

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31. Palm ball seems to have made the game softer too

Reply to JonLP24 (Reply #16)

Sun Oct 11, 2020, 11:34 PM

Oct 2020

When I was on the high school team in the 60s we would get a foul call for palming the ball. Palming was great for a sort of cheating to carry the ball further without having to dribble and expose the ball for a potential steal.

Somewhere over the decades it seems that rule disappeared, and now I’m amazed at how far they can palm the ball without penalty.

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