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Old Thu Feb 05, 2004, 08:10pm
Smitty Smitty is offline
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Originally posted by thumpferee
I had an official once tell me he gave a TO while a player was passing it to another. No posession was lost, still team control on the pass. TO granted. You know the rest, the ball was stolen on the pass, sorry coach, team control.

30 or full coach?

thoughts?
A timeout can only be granted to a team with player control or during a dead ball. Team control is not sufficient to be able to call a timeout. There must be player control. The ref in your situation got it wrong and paid the price. Unfortunately for the other team, once the ref grants the timout, there's no turning back.

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