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Originally posted by ChuckElias
Coach, as I'm sure you know, granting a coach's request for a time-out is rather low on an official's priority list in situations where the ball is heavily pressured. I don't know the exact situation in that article, but if "while he was screaming, the ball was stolen", I'm not sure the request could be verified and granted. Just my two cents, but I would hesitate to say that the official earned his earful. No official gives a coach an earful over a bad coaching move. . .
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I'm going to agree and disagree. Here is the actual text of the article:
Jeremy Wickman, basketball referee
In his first year of refereeing, in a 9-10 McLean Youth International basketball game, the contest was tied going into the fourth quarter The parents and coaches were getting edgy. It was coming down to the wire, and one team was down by two, when the other team scored a basket to put them down by four. The coach of the team down by four screamed for a timeout, but they didn't have any. During the play, while he was screaming, the ball was stolen. Wickman's crew heard more than an earful from the losing side after the contest.
The way I read this, Wickman didn't grant the timeout because they didn't have any. (Why mention that they don't have any unless that's integral to the story?)
OTOH, holy smokes, it was a 9-10 year old game. No coach or parent should ever be getting worked up about anything an official does in a game with kids this young.