I'm seeing some things around time outs that I'm not liking so much.
First did I miss the meeting where loose balls go to the first coach to call time out ?
Ball pinballing around in the grey area of our PCA,2 man. In the middle of this we have tweet, and my partner has a TO for one of the teams. This wasn't a case of different angles this was a case of a recent phenom in my area of whoever calls a TO first gets the loose ball.
It's a little frustrating cause i don't give the TO till I see a player in control of the ball. Because i don't give the TO I get to continually have the following conversation of
Coach: I called time out.
Me: didn't have control of the ball yet coach
coach : but I called TO
me: shrug.
Here's one I would like to hear your thoughts on....
Visitors score. Visiting coach is asking for a time out. No one initally grants one. Home team brings ball in and is about 3/4 of the way to the division line when the visitors request is granted. So we have big racket over that by the home team.
So I talk to the 2 refs at half time to hear what they had to say.
Old Lead/NEw trail said ' I heard someone asking for timeout but didn't know who it was. When I figured it out I gave it to him. "
Old Trail/New Lead said" My bad I should have been paying attention but I wasn't."
Would you have granted the late TO in this Sitch ?