granting time-out as player goes oob

[Hartsy]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

What would alleviate this whole debate would be good communication skills on the court. If the player has control of the ball and requests a time-out then ends up out-of-bounds before your whistle sounds then you communicate to everyone that he/she requested the time-out before the violation occurred.

This is just how easy it is.

I was also in on a situation like mentioned before where a TO was requested by a coach when his team had control but I whistled AFTER (well, AS) his team had made an errant pass that was soon to turn into a layup the other way.

A lot of people stood up to cheer me, including the coach who thought I stole 2 points from him. He didn't stand much more after that, but he was able to finish the game.