PREGAME!!!!
You have to discuss this in your pregame. Tell the coach you want to see and hear the timeout request. Otherwize do not grant it unless you are 100% sure what he/she wants. If you do screw up and grant a time-out when a coach was not calling for one (ie calling out defense etc) treat it as an inadvertant whistle and immediately play on. This is YOUR mistake not the coaches. You have already penalized that team (or the other by interrupting the flow of the game) do not rub salt in the wound by forcing a team to take a TO that was not wanted or warrented. This just gives the coach added fuel to question your competence and act like an idiot.
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