White has the ball and "I" give Blue a Timeout?

[Peter Devana]

Someone mentioned they don't like the rule allowing the coach to call TO's from the sideline-I agree !!!! In noisy gyms mistakes like this are easy to make-They should do away with this rule! _Had it happen to me once in a Tourney final involving Hihg School AAA boys. Since I blew the whistle and made the ball dead I granted the TO and then explained my error to the coach of the team that had possession -told him he would get a new shot clock(we use shot clocks here).Then explained it to the other coach -everyone was happy and we carried on-may not be by rule but it was fair and it worked-Comments???
Pistol