Game Management

[Mark Dexter]

Are you in Connecticut by any chance?

Similar situation happened in a HS BJV game I was watching Tuesday night. Visitors score, home team grabs the ball to inbounds, and the home coach starts shouting for a timeout. Well, his players hear this, and just start casually walking toward the bench while the ball bounces OOB on the sideline, right below the FT line extended. Ref blows his whistle, thinks a split second, then says "no timeout - it's out of bounds." They then asked the home coach if he still wanted a timeout and granted it.

Visiting coach comes out saying the ball wasn't touched (don't ask me why the T had left the endline ), the partners conferred, and awarded the ball to the visitors at the spot of the inbounds. Very nicely done.

Of course, I was still upset at the play - seeing my cousin was one of the players who walked away from the ball . . .