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Originally Posted by Stat-Man
Must be something about overtimes this week. I had my first overtime game last night in what should be my season finale (girls JV). Near the end of regulation, V requests a timeout. Official book says they have none even though neither my partner nor I were notified, and the scoreboard shows both teams have one timeout left. Although it wasn't by the book, Home offered to call his final timeout instead and my partner allowed that. the up side: my partner and I knew both teams were out of timeouts at that point. 
Visitors get a basket to tie and a foul -- and miss the free throw which leads us into overtime. Visitors go on to get the game wining basket in the closing seconds of overtime. I also happened to see the varsity game also went to overtime as well.
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Side question: Is it good game management to ask the table if both teams still have timeouts (yes or no) to help avoid this late in the game? I'd like to learn from what happened last night, and try to avoid it in the future as much as possible. |
That is very sporting of the home team to use their timeout, although I am sure there will be people who will come along shortly and say you can't give back a timeout once it is requested and granted. (Although why is this different from when a coach requests a TO when a player is about to get a five or ten second violation but gets fouled and bailed out. I would still ask if they still want the timeout.). Any who, I also had a crazy overtime season with at least 2 OTs and one double OT. All were very fun games to officiate.
And as for your question about asking the table about TO's, absolutely yes, yes yes. Ask during Any other timeout or when it is close just to be sure. As an official part of your responsibility is to inform a couch when they are out of TOs. How do you tell them if you don't know? And I think most will agree, but we will find out, that you should only tell a coach when they are out of timeouts not that they have two or three, or one left.