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Originally Posted by gojeremy
At what point of the game should I be glancing towards the benches? With 1 or 2 minutes remaining?
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Time doesn't matter - you'll get a feel for game awareness as you go. You'll sense when coaches are likely to want a timeout.
But with a minute or less left (or after a team has started fouling to stop the clock ... or at any point after that first timeout in crunch-time), start expecting the timeout. That said ... the 1 or 2 seconds they gain from you looking over is probably going to only be critical inside a minute - and more critical as you get closer to the end. I don't think anyone's going to go clipboard throwing if their timeout was at 1:56 instead of 1:58. Maybe not even 0:56 vs 0:58. But 0:08 vs 0:06 - probably.