[just another ref]

BV two whistle. Gym is crowded and pretty noisy. Trail is inbounding the ball opposite the visitors bench near the division line. Home coach, standing in the box yells timeout. Trail apparently didn't hear him. He took a step out onto the court and repeated the request a bit louder. No response. He took another step, and another, continuing to get louder. He was close to the center of the court when the trail finally spotted him. I'm thinking "Now he done it." Trail stepped briskly toward the coach, visibly annoyed, I thought, and granted the timeout. If not now, when? Trail tossed the ball to the lead, then proceeded to step into the huddle and engage in a spirited discussion with the coach, gesturing emphatically to the coaches box. To make a long story short, (too late) that was it. My question. If you are the lead on this play, at what point, if any would you not call the T from there? It is up to each to judge how far is too far, when it comes to a coach out of the box, whether asking for timeout or whatever reason. But if I'm the lead, as much as I think the coach had it coming, I don't think I would go literally get between him and my partner to hand it out. In other words, once he blew his whistle for the timeout, as far as I'm concerned the decision not to call the T has been made. As much as I may disagree with it, I think it wrong to step over my partner in this situation.

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