Hawks Coach,
With all due respect (and I have enjoyed your posts in the past- very educated coach on the rules!)I disagree that 2 rules were violated. The rule you quoted states that a coach needs to be notified when he has used his last timeout. Per the book (official) he had not used his last timeout. During his timeout, I was going to check the timeout situation anyway for my knowledge. If it was his last he would have been duly informed. I simply answered his question.
Secondly, I fail to understand how I violated a rule by giving incorrect information. This implies that I knowingly passed on wrong info (lying)! NEVER!!!
NCAA Ref,
Very good points. However, would you answer the coach by telling him to check with his assistant. To me this sounds sort of stand-offish and adversarial (sp?) How would you handle the situation?
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