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Nicely done. I had a brain freeze a few weeks ago on a TO.
Last seconds of the game B1 hits a 2 and is now down by
1. I'm at trail. A throws the ball in, and I then see
coach B standing giving the "timeout" signal (it was too
loud to hear him). I did not see him before the ball was
thrown in. I blow the whistle, point to B's bench, and A1
looks at me like I have 2 heads. Coach A gets up and starts
walking to the mid court line. The gym is near silent. At
that point I just wanted to be somewhere else, so before
coach A had a chance to speak I start my sales pitch:
"timeout before the throw in! A gets to run the line, B gets the time out!" I then got to explain to both coaches in a very civilized manner that the ball was picked up and
made it's way onto the court while I verified that the TO was being called by coach B. Coach A bought it, but to this day I have no idea when coach B actually started to request the TO. The kicker was after my explanation to coach A about how these things happen coach B wanted me to add 2 seconds to the clock, to "account for the delay between my granting the TO and the whistle being blown".
I was so relieved to have pulled it off I didn't mind
having to explain why he wasn't going to get more time.
A ended up winning by 3 after B's foul.
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