[MN BB Ref]

Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
I know that there are H.S. officials who do not like having head coaches request team timeouts, but a good pre-game and proper mechanics can reduce the problem that happened in the posted play.

In this case my partner and I did not have any pregame as he did not show up until minutes before tipoff. Unfortunately this seems to be the way things happen in many of these tournaments.

Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
From the description of the play I am going to make an educated assumption that the officiating crew was a two-man crew and that the Trail official was Table-side. In situations like the posted play, the official who is Opposite-the-Table needs to be aware of possible timeout situations and should be the official who grants the head coach's request for a team timeout. This eliminates the need for the Trail official in this play from having to look away from the ball to verify who is requesting the team timeout.

Mark is correct in assuming this was how the play transpired. I was indeed table-side as the trail official. This required me to actually turn my head to verify the request for the TO. When I turned my head player A1 had not been trapped yet, but upon locating the coach and verifying the request the player was trapped, stripped of the ball, and B1 was in the process of scoring the basket. I do agree that the player had possession when the coach requested the TO, but I can see merits to handling it both ways as it also true that a TO is not a TO until the official grants it. This isn't to say that we should be tardy in granting them though. I guess the saving grace of it all was that the coach of Team A never complained about the way the play transpired.