Wed Mar 11, 2009, 04:19pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ma_ref
Temporarily forgetting about the argument made for the amount of time necessary for a player to secure control of the ball versus when the clock starts, anybody think about the obvious point of how long it takes the coach to actually say "time out"?
- Clock doesn't start until a player touches the ball after the missed FT
- Coach can't call timeout until player on his team has possession of the ball
- Once posession has been established, he may request a TO
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Yes, I did. I wrote it 45 minutes before you did. 
The coach cannot make his request until the player controls the ball. So you're saying that the player can control the ball, the coach can request TO, the whistle be blown and the clock stopped in one or two tenths or a second.
I don't see it.
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