Requesting timeout on layup situation???

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Raymond

In the shooting situation, the request comes from a player who is in your visual field along with the shooter. What rules justification do you have to deny the time out in one situation ...

Both in my visual field?

Shooter still has player control? Grant the timeout.

Shooter has released the shot? Deny the timeout request, play on.

Shooter is in the act of shooting but hasn't released the shot? Grant the timeout.

These are easy to explain to any coach or assigner.

Now the airborne player flying out of bounds is another story. Grant the timeout, no rules basis, no casebook basis, easy to explain to my assigner, impossible to explain to a very intelligent coach who just moved to Connecticut (see above post). Calling this won't lower any evaluation, and won't get me taken off the varsity list (I've already taken myself off the varsity list due to a chronic orthopedic problem). It may cost me one state tournament vote by the new coach, but I can live with that, and I won't lose any sleep over it (I only worked one varsity game this year, so I doubt that I'm getting more than two votes, if that, anyway).