This is an excellent example of officials communicating with one another and the table. Obviously, the officials knew that the team had no timeouts left. As you said, nice job of preventive officiating.
Here is a situation I had and would like others to comment on. With 2 seconds left in the half, Team A was inbounding under Team B's basket. A 1 threw a long lob pass down court in hopes of a last second shot. B 5 jumped high to intercept the pass, gained possession and returned to the floor. B 4 signals to me for a timeout. I blow my whistle and grant it. The coach for Team B is visibly upset and thinks that I should have passed on the timeout. To add more fuel to the flames, the clock shows 0.1 seconds remaining. I tell the coach that the timeout stands. During the timeout, I consult my partner as to the starting of the clock. He tells me that he is certain that I blew my whistle with 1 second remaining. Since only 0.9 seconds elapsed, I left the clock where it was. We ended the half with B 1 just tossing the ball to B 2; no last second shot even attempted. Now, for my own sake, I called the timeout by B 4 because I truly felt that Team B could have gotten a shot off. Unfortunately, only 0.1 remained. Please respond with comments.
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