[TimTaylor]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Things Officials Should Probably Not Be Saying In A Game

"Coach, you have one timeout left", is a courtesy often extended by officials to coaches, when, by rule, officials should only be notifying head coaches when their team has been granted its final allowable timeout. If there is any miscommunication, or mistake, involving the table crew reporting remaining timeouts, then the officials, by rule, need to stay out of the conversation. Let the coaches, and table crew, communicate about remaining timeouts, other than when a team has been granted its final allowable timeout, which by rule, is required to be reported to the coach by the officials.

I actually had it happen in a 2A BV game a couple years ago. Very close game, and with about a minute and a half left in Q4 the home team used their last time out. During the TO I checked with the table, and as they were coming out of the huddle I advised the HC they had used their final timeout. It gets down to just under 10 seconds left, visitors are up by one when the home team grabs a rebound off a missed shot and the home HC immediately and loudly requested a time out, which we granted. When I then let him know the tiimeout was costing them a team technical he was really upset, but later apologized and admitted he goofed. Visitors wound up winning by three.