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Old Fri Oct 14, 2016, 08:36am
Raymond Raymond is offline
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Originally Posted by Altor View Post
I rarely give coaches strategy advice, but I'd be tempted to say:
"Coach, have one or more of your players commit a jump ball violation after the ball leaves my hand. Then you can call a timeout. Yes, you lose the jump ball (which would also happen with a TF), but it saves you two free throws and I don't have to ignore any rules."
You would say all that?

I would think it's pretty simple. "By rule we cannot not grant you that timeout until OT commences."
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