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Originally Posted by kbilla
had a situation the other night, varsity boys game, 3-man mechanics..team A hits a shot with 3.7 seconds left, i am lead transitioning to new trail, i immediately look up and see the team B coach jumping up and down with his hands over his head and i see him mouth the words "time-out" (extremely loud, so i could not hear the words). so i come out and kill the clock. the clock had run down under a second. i come over and my partner asks what i have, i say i have a timeout white, we're putting 3.7 seconds back on. his response.."white is out of timeouts". immediately the coach comes over and pleads that he was yelling to his team "no timeouts" because he had been informed by U2 that he was out of timeouts when he called his last with 23 seconds left. now i realize that in hindsight this is a lack of communication amongst the three of us (which will be reviewed in detail in every pre-game i do fron here on out), but what do you have at that time? a coach may not "request an excessive time-out", but what do you do here when he claims he was not requesting one and had just recently been informed that he had none? just curious for thoughts, will let you know what we did..
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It was a ploy by the coach to get the clock stopped. He knew the clock would run out before his team could inbound the ball so he requested the time-out hoping that the crew would then rule it an inadvertant whistle. But he would have accomplished his goal of stopping the clock so his team could set up a play.
I would have charged him the time-out and put back whatever time I (or my partners) saw when I blew my whistle. After the time-out period ended opposing team shoots 2 free throws and then takes ball out at division line.