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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Nope. #2 and #3 happen at the same time. You have no rules support for your nice little schema. You may desire it to work that way, but according to the rules it doesn't. The ball isn't dead in your step #2. The ball becomes dead in #3 when the whistle blows. The defender made a good steal and your method screws him out of it. The coach wasn't quick enough in making his time-out request. That's all.
I hope that you don't go back and put an extra two seconds on the clock to reflect the time between when you "granted" the time-out before the opponent stole the ball and when you sounded your whistle.  |
It takes two seconds for you to whistle after deciding to grant a time out?! Wow!
As a matter of fact there's a time differential between deciding to grant a time out and putting air in your whistle. I'm talking a tenth of a second or less. The rules fail to address this gap.
IMO, and in actual practice in my area, the time out should be granted when the team in possession loses the ball during that gap.
FWIW, you have no rules backing for your opinion either.
