Here's a can of worms on this topic. It's a fact that if a team, during the game, requests an excess timeout, the timeout is granted and it's a technical foul. What do you do if the excess timeout was requested during a time when that team could not legally be granted a timeout (if they still had one, that is)? Do you call the T and give them the timeout, or do you ignore it the same as if they had a timeout left? This happened in a game I had about 4 years ago. My partner (a 15 year vet) called the T and gave them the timeout. I told him during the timout I disagreed, and that he should have ignored it, since the other team was in team control at the time (holding ball to inbound on spot throwin). Comments?
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