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Originally Posted by bob jenkins
I'll go with "if a legal TO request is made before the held ball is observed (or recognized, or whatever) by the official there is no justification not to grant the TO request."
The point being that there might be a delay between the official seeing the held ball and getting the whistle blown.
And, just having B's hands on the ball is not a held ball. It's not held until the official judges it to be so.
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That works well also by rule. And it's basically all that Tony was saying.
It's the same delay between the official hearing the TO request and then blowing the whistle to grant the TO request as recognizing the held ball and then blowing the whistle to call that held ball.
If there's a problem, the officials have to get together and decide who
recognized what first----> the TO request or the held ball.