Time Out Questions

[rainmaker]

I've been plowing through the rule book and case book, to find things I don't yet understand, and then working on those. Some things I can figure out, or they've been discussed here or on McGriff, and I've gone back to reference them. Here are a couple questions I'm not sure of the answers to.

5-8-3b Time-out occurs and the clock, if running, shall be stopped when an official...grants a player's/head coach's oral or visual request for a time-out, such request being granted only when...The ball is dead, unless replacement of a disqualified, or injured player(s), or a player directed to leave the game is pending, and a substitute(s) is available.

It's this last part that I feel uncertain about. In looking through the case book, I infer that if some player is forced to leave, the time-out can't be granted until the substitution is made. But it is okay to recognize and promise the time-out, isn't it? So coach B is on the floor dealing with injured player B1, and coach A signals for a time-out. (I don't know why, but we've all seen coaches do stupider things, haven't we?) I don't just stand there ignoring him, do I? I say okay coach, when the sub is in, we'll give you a time-out. Then as the injured player is being carried off, and the sub steps onto the floor, then do I blow my whistle, and signal the table?

On a regular time-out, substitutions must be reported before the warning buzz, right? But on a dq the "time-out" is over as soon as the sub reports, right? Then a that point, one coach or the other could call another time-out, right?

If a coach, requests a time-out, and I grant it, even though I shouldn't, it happens anyway, doesn't it? What if I thought the coach requested, but he insists he didn't? Can I put the ball back and not give the time-out? Do I have to call a time-out and give it to one coach or the other?

How much discretion am I allowed in granting or not granting a time-out when the in-bounder is having trouble? If the coach requests, but just then the ball goes in-bounds, do I look over and see if he still wants it, or do I just give it? At what point is it too late to change his mind?