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Originally posted by Jeremy Hohn
I was just curious your thoughts on this practice. I use it quite often for a trailing team if the game is close and they are trying to close the gap. I ask the coach if he would like me to grant a time out on a made basket. That way you don't lose time trying to recognize the time-out, or, in my case tonight in my high school game, you have a real soft spoken coach that can't get himself heard above the crowd noise.
It worked well for me tonight, and has other times before.....
...thoughts? Is there anything in the NF rulebook to address this practice? Just curious what you guys think...
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I think the same thing as Canuckrefguy. The FED rulebook covers it under rule 5-8-3-"Grants a player's/head coaches oral or visual request for a time-out". That's pretty specific as far as I'm concerned.You might be bending the rules to aid one coach,but,at the same time,you're screwing the other coach by illegally granting a TO when there has been no actual request made.You've just created an unfair advantage for the one team by not following the rule,as written.JMO.