Tying a Shoe

[deecee]

i will give the player time to tie his shoe before putting the ball in play -- also if his team has the ball and they are just walking the ball up the court i will stop and let him tie his shoe -- i do this only once a game where i would stop the action any subsequent time i just let it play until a dead ball or if the coach insists i must stop the game to let his player tie his shoe -- blow the whistle and call a timeout for his team -- coach will complain and then you tell him "coach i am going to go and report something to the table that starts with a letter T which one do you want?"

happened twice and both times the coach went with the timeout.