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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle
Had one right at the end of a very close JVB game. Defender is pressing and has the ball-handler trapped in the corner in back court. He ties up the ball. I blow my whistle and signal jump ball just as I hear the offensive coach hollering for a time out. Too late, right?
My partner then gives a tweet-tweet, comes running across, waves off my jump ball and grants the time out.
It turns out that the coach had requested the time out clearly before the tie up. I had been too far away to hear it. My partner, who had recently finished up his football season, out of habit didn't have his whistle in his mouth.
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Good call.
I had something similar the other night, also JVB. A1 bringing the ball across the division line gets trapped. Coach A starts asking for a time out, once, twice, three times. By the third one I had glanced at him and confirmed that his team had the ball, and whistled for the TO.
Just before my whistle, a defender had knocked the ball loose, and Team B recovered it just after the whistle. So to Coach B, this looked like a bad whistle. But I explained to him that I had granted the TO before I whistled. As you might guess, he thought I was wrong.
