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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle
In FIBA the coach has to go to the table to request a TO which isn't granted until the next dead ball?
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Yes. A time out is called
only by the coach (or assistant coach) by signalling the request to the score keeper who will sound the horn at the next TO opportunity, basically any dead ball when also the clock is stopped or a basket scored by the opponents (if the ball is already dead, the TO must be requested before the ball becomes live, in order to get the TO immediately). The TO can be granted also after a successful last free throw, between successive series of FT for different fouls, or between FT and a throw-in from the division line.
An exception is, of course, the dead ball following a scored basket in the last two minutes of regulation time or overtime: only the non-scoring team can be granted a TO, unless the non-scoring team has been granted a TO or a substitution.
(Comment: it's indeed very difficult to say, isn't it?)
Players cannot ask for a TO, with one exception: when a team has no coach and the team captain is playing; in this case the captain can ask the TO directly to the nearest official who will grant it at the first TO opportunity.
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