More on the player vs coach calling TO

[assignmentmaker]

Originally posted by ChuckElias
Ideally, the rule would read that the coach could only request TO when the ball is dead and the clock is stopped.

What I wouldn't give to have the 'coach can call it' rule rescinded or revised!

I thought I had mastered it, but no.

Here's a cautionary tale - forewarned is forearmed, I hope.

I am the trail on the side of the floor away from the benches. The pointguard is all alone bringing the ball up. When she gets to the top of the key, her coach says something about time out. I don't hear him clearly, and she is right between us, so I am actively considering whether or not he asked me for a time out, or instructed her to ask for one, immediately or later.

Worse than flipping the ball to me, she pushes it behind her to the endline, before I blow the whistle. I blow the whistle and conclude that he had asked me for the timeout and I had granted it - I had simply been slow in whistling. Yuk.