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Originally Posted by Jimgolf
While team B should have their own scorekeeper tracking this, team A should also have better qualified scorekeeping personnel. Giving incorrect information like that could give the appearance of cheating, and we definitely don't want to go there.
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At lower levels, who does the book could be anyone, from a parent doign their first game to an injured player or student team manager.
We have one middle school in my area that consistently has non-playing players keep their book, so when we play at their site, I take NFHS 2-11-11 very literally and ask the scorer how many fouls are on a player after each and every foul and how many time outs are left after each time out. It probably isn't foolproof, but it at least minimizes the likelihood of bad information.
As for the orginial scenario, if the official scorer tells an official a team has one time out, and then after the tean's coach calls it, informs the official, there was really zero time outs left, I'd find it difficult to whack the coach (Team-T) if they were given clearly faulty information from the official book/scorer.