inadvertent time out??

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by DownTownTonyBrown
How about granting one when you shouldn't have...

I screwed the pooch the other night - 23 seconds left in a 6 point game. Loosing team has just made the first free throw. Second shot is in the air and hits the rim. I here a loud TIME OUT! from the loosing team coach.

My STUPID WHISTLE went off. I don't know why - it just went off. The ball bounds off the rim and bounces once and almost comes to me at the trail position. Oh My God!

The coach just looks at me. He didn't even take a time out now that the clock was stopped. (Perhaps I should have forced him to take one??? He had TO's available.)

We went to the arrow. Loosing team will get the ball back. OH JUST GREAT! Now the winning team scorekeeper (Visitors) tells me that her team had the rebound before I blew my whistle. (Yeah right! She's a previous coach and had the same kind of trying attitude then too!)

We continue with the throw-in. Loosing team does not score. No one scores. All is well except my bruised ego.

Should I have done something different... given my initial error?

The losing team should have been charged with a time-out in the score book. And you shoulda smacked the losing coach upside the head for making you look bad.