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Originally Posted by deecee
I like to think that that little bit of gray is necessary to be an effective official. But once again, before I am jumped on for expressing my opinion, by rule you are supported to call a T in this case, but an argument can be made to NOT call the T and I fall into that camp.
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Yes, but at some point one has to say that he is too far out of the box. He wasn't 2 steps out of the box towards the endline requesting a timeout, he was on the court and halfway across it. He was way out of the box, it was too far to let it go.
The other problem is he was actually on the court all the way out in the middle of it. What if the official didn't see him and administered the throw in and play was live while he was out in the middle of the floor? It is one thing to leave the box and move along the sideline out of bounds but it is totally different moving onto the court where one may interfere with play.