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Originally posted by assignmentmaker
I hope officials are not interposing their own judgment as to whether or not a timeout should be granted if the request comes during a live ball.
His team, Team A, was down 5 with 12 seconds to go. They shot a 3, now down 2, but by the time B1 saunters out of bounds with the ball and the official begins his count, there's 4 seconds left. My son requests a timeout and it's granted. Now they're down 2 with 3 seconds left. Team B makes 1 of 2 technical foul shots, up 3, and goes to inbound the ball at halfcourt opposite the table. Team A plays finest kind of defense and Team B throws the inbounds pass out of bounds on the other side of the court. Team A inbounds and . . . misses the 3, but they got a good look and had a chance, because the official did not hesitate to grant to request for timeout.
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Well, I would hope that officials know enough to apply the proper
rule as to whether or not a time-out should be granted if that request comes during a live ball. There's really no judgement involved.
Unfortunately, the official in your game screwed up big-time anyway. You can't grant a time-out request if the ball is live and in the thrower's hands. You simply just ignore the request. That's rule 5-8-3. The ball was not in control of or at the disposal of your son's team, and it was live. You can't grant a TO request to the scoring team under those circumstances. The official should have just stood there and let the last 4 seconds of the game run off the clock.