Thread: Late Time outs
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Old Thu May 16, 2002, 06:29pm
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At all levels, the team that made the basket can then call TO. The only difference is whether or not the clock is already stopped.

As a coach under NF rules, sometimes you call the TO after basket strictly to get the clock stoppage. More frequently, you do this to ensure you have the right press completely set up, know which players are going to foul if you need to, maybe even sub in your reserve 2 guard who has a couple of fouls to burn so your point guard doesn't foul out. You may be calling these timeouts to prevent the quick inbounds from beating your press. So really, the timing issue frequently has little to do with why these TOs are called. And the TO rule is the same at all levels, from my observation.
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