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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
So much is wrong with this post, I'll only address the most glaring error by quoting my friend rulebook again.
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I fail to see the glaring error. A timeout shall not exceed one minute. At no place does it say a full timeout is 45 seconds. A warning signal is sounded for the teams to prepare to be ready for play is sounded at 45 seconds. That does not say to me that the timeout is over. That means to me that a team still has 15 seconds to discuss stragety to their players.
Length of timeouts is not a problem in my games, and I have never had a game go 5 hours. If a game goes longer than it normallly should, it is not because of the amount of time spent in the TO's. It is because of other factors like the referee's calling 60 fouls total in the game, or the JV game for the same reason going longer than it should have.
You ever wonder why there's not an official warning in the rulebook for the team taking too much time coming out of the timeout? I think it would be helpful and it gets the point across without you having to burn one of the teams to do so. The rules suggest we put the ball in play while the one team is not ready. That goes against the ethics of fair play which we are there to ensure, imo.