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Had the same situtation happen to me earlier this year. A (home team) gets the ball on rebound in front of their bench and starts in transition. I am at trail passing the A coach when my new lead official grants a timout to B coach as she runs by. Team B starts their huddle as I am explaining to my partner that B can't call timeout without the ball. A Coach has a bewildered look on his face. At this point I tell my partners and coaches that B will get and be charged the timeout per rule. I walk over and tell the A coach "the only explanation I can give is that we flat out kicked it" and he laughs. He then tells me he wants to work that defensive strategy into his game because it is an excellent fast break stopper! We both had a quick chuckle and went on with the game. An evaluator was at the game and although didn't like that the sitch game up was pleased with the way we handled getting out of it. No problems the rest of the way.
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