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Old Mon Mar 20, 2006, 01:01pm
Raymond Raymond is offline
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Don't know if this applies to this post, but food for thought:

I did a game 2 seasons ago where the coach for Team B called for a timeout while Team A had the ball at their disposal for a designated spot throw-in in Team A's backcourt. I mistakenly blew my whistle and called out "time-out, Blue". I then granted the time-out and explained to Team A coach that since I had blown my whistle and acknowleged the time-out request, it had to be granted. He had no major problem with it.

After the game I bumped into Team B coach as I was leaving the locker room and he shook my hand and told me "nice game". Then he said that he purposely called for the time-out while Team A was inbounding. He said I was the first official ever to force him to take the time-out after mistakenly blowing the whistle. He said every other time a official had blown the whistle that they would wave the time-out off, but he would use the interruption to change his defense.
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