Situation with 5 seconds left
 

I was calling a spring HS boys game. 5 seconds left team A score a 3 pointer to be within 1 point. as the basket was going through the hoop. the team A called time out. I was in the trail at the time the basket was scored. the official under the basket didn't grant the Time out to the player 5 feet away from him. with some delay I see the time out being called and grant the timeout. The coach from team B, had a valid complaint that team B already had possession of the ball underneath thebasket and the time out should not be granted. The end result was I granted team A the time out. They stole the ball on the inbounds and score with 1 second left and win by1.

Please give me any opinion and or suggestion to this issue.

If you see or hear the request before the ball is at the disposal of the other team, then you grant it. If it seems late, and the coach complains, you simply say the request came earlier.

Why did your partner not grant it? Did s/he not see it? Or was there a reason for not granting it?

1) The lead shoulda granted the timeout.
2) If team B was holding the ball for the throw-in, you shouldn't have granted team A's timeout request, unless you honestly can say that you recognized the TO request before B had the ball.
3) Once you did blow your whistle to grant team A the timeout though, you have to go ahead and give them that timeout. See NFHS casebook play 5.8.3SitE.
4) Tell team B coach "my bad".
5) Resume play after the timeout with team B getting a non-spot end line throw-in.

Sh!t happens. No big deal.

I did see the time out and waiting for the lead to call the TO. That is why I came with delay TO.

when I aske my partner why he didn't call it. He said he didn't see it.

I feel different about it I think he heard it. there is no way that he didn't see it or hear it. he was 5 feet away. This was not your typical HS game with 1000 people in gym. I did at 40 feet away.

You had it right then. As Chuck said, by rule it's not <b>when</b> you blow your whistle on the TO, it's when you <b>recognize</b> the TO request.

Either way, on time or late, team A got their deserved timeout anyway......iow, all's well that ends well. Good job on bailing your partner out.

Hmmmmm....
 

Me thinks partner was trying to get outta there, no?????
:rolleyes:

Ah, yes. Such a thing happened to me last season, leading to my first Coaches T in 3 years. Apparently, he didn't like the explanation I gave him, which was just what Chuck said. My whistle for Team A's TO was just late enough that Team B had stolen a pass and was going to have an easy layup at the opposite end.

I'm glad it was a spring league and not regular season, the head coach was sitting in the stand, he did make sure that I heard about it after the game. The end result was he got an L. IMO nothing that we( notice the we, not putting it on my partner) may have caused, but in his eyes, it was all the officials for blowing the call.

Fred,

I am going to assume that your partner did not see the time out request and leave it at that. Now unless you saw him look directly at the player and you believe he just did not grant the timeout after seeing the request, then that might be another issue. Just because he is closer does not mean he is more likely to see the request. He might have been too close and you were in a better spot to give a timeout.

Peace

Two things:

1. when you see a player/coach request a timeout in the closing seconds of a game, blow the whistle no matter where the player is. I don't believe "primary" areas were at all meant to apply to timeout requests.
2. In situations where you have a delayed whistle on a timeout request, I tell the other coach that I didn't want to blow my whistle inadvertantly and the request was made earlier but I needed to confirm that
   • it really was a timeout request
   • the team had player control of the ball at the time of the request
   • the ball was still dead at the time of the request
   • it was the coach and not some fan behind the coach

It was my first time working with this official, But not only 5 feet away, he was jumping up and down in front of him. He may have blanked out. Like I have many times when in my earlier years.

Also, I may have had a more of perriphial view of the court.

Maybe he just froze? Did you ask him? I think this is a situation where you should ask the official to why he did not grant the timeout. All we can do is speculate on reasons and give opinions (which at the end of the day mean nothing). Whether you worked with this guy or not should not be a factor. He might have not been very experienced and just did not know what to do. Also I feel the rule that has allowed coaches to call timeouts has made the occurrences of players calling timeouts rare. Maybe he did not know what to do in this kind of situation? Until you ask him, all we can do is speculate.

Peace

this was in one of my post!

I did ask during the time out. that was his reply. He didn't see it.

No problem As I mentioned many times on this thread. we live and die as a team. So I took the heat from the coach, but we handled it.

If your partner answered this question to you directly, what are you asking of us? All you can do is call what you see. You cannot make your partner do anything or call anything. It sounds like he just blew the call. It will not be the first time that happens and it definitely will not be the last. The best you can do is learn from the situation and hope you do not miss this the next time. You saw the TO request and you granted. You got it right, not sure what else you expect to do.

Peace

JR, I was trying to get different opinions. One poster mentioned that about of calling primary. I know the call was correct. I justed wanted to get different Opinions. I got mixed opinions from some of the officials I spoke to.

I wanted some honest opinions like yourself on this thread.