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Old Wed Mar 04, 2009, 09:32am
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Originally Posted by SamIAm View Post
I once had a sitch in which I was trail, table side, near A's bench. A1 falling OOB. Coach calls timeout. Then again louder. Then again more louder. Sort of a timeout, TimeOut, TIMEOUT. I was close enough to hear the 1st timeout request and granted the timeout. This ocurred in the closing seconds of a tight game. The timeout everyone heard was TIMEOUT with A1
already OOB.
Something similiar may have happened in this sitch if the play was near an official.
Very good point! Once a season I have to tell a coach that his nonchalant signal/voice makes it very difficult for us to properly grant the request. A little more effort on his part makes the request that much more obvious to us.
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