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Old Tue Oct 01, 2002, 07:34am
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Quote:
Originally posted by WarpedOne
Chuck...I'm not trying to be difficult but why would you grant a TO to a team with none without making sure they want one first? Generally when this happens it's at the end of a game when everything is frenetic and a player unwittingly calls a TO to try to slow things down.
That's not an unreasonable question, and the answer is: b/c whether he really "wanted" the TO or not, the TO accomplishes what the player really did want, which is to stop the clock, or "slow things down" as you put it. So you grant the TO, which accomplishes what the player wanted. Unfortunately, the price of stopping the clock in that situation is a T.

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