Time Out Mania

[kbilla]

Originally Posted by chartrusepengui

similar play last night - GV game. I am on baseline administering a throwin. A basket had been scored and on initial inbound there was a kicking violation. I gave ball to inbounder and backed away. Opponent in FC press. Inbounder moves down line facing away from me. I hear "time" but only see back. then I see her step onto court with ball and my whistle goes off - violation. Partner comes in and said TO explaining to me that she was facing him and he saw her signal and say TO but spit his whistle - then mine went off for the violation. We granted TO and gave the team the ball for throw in following the TO.

I have "spit the whistle" as well, that to me is a bit different than actually granting the TO late...in that case the official attempted to grant the TO, but just didn't get the whistle out, I think you did the right thing..easy enough to explain to the coach that you went to blew the whistle and spit it out..

[kbilla]

Speaking of spitting the whistle, anybody have any good stories? You know somebody goes up and gets killed, you spit the whistle, your partners don't bail you out and they are halfway up the court going the other way before you blow it and bring them back - anybody ever just pass on a foul b/c they spit the whistle? I'm sure I have probably done both over the years...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by kbilla

Speaking of spitting the whistle, anybody have any good stories?

Early season game. My partner, the referee, passes on a blocked shot/foul call, at the buzzer, that ended the first period. No complaints from the coach. My partner is at the division line, across from the table, waiting to inbound the ball to start the second poriod. Players start walking onto the court to start the period. I am standing, in front of the above mentioned coach, with the whistle in my mouth, counting players. The coach politely asks me about the call, whether my partner passed, or whether the buzzer came before the foul. I drop the whistle from my mouth to answer the coach, who thanks me for the information. Satisfied that there are the correct ten players on the court, and the clock is set at 8:00, I point to my partner to start the period. Within a few seconds there is an intentional kick in my primary. I blow the whistle for the violation, to find that it's not in my mouth. My partner comes to my aid with a quack whistle, and we move on, looking at each other and smilling as we move up the court after the inbounds, after the violation.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

My partner comes to my aid with a quack whistle, and we move on, ...

That must be the new one that sounds like a duck.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

That must be the new one that sounds like a duck.

Obviously it wasn't a Dolphin.

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

My partner comes to my aid with a quack whistle...

The dreaded AFLAC violation?

[Andy]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Early season game. My partner, the referee, passes on a blocked shot/foul call, at the buzzer, that ended the first period. No complaints from the coach. My partner is at the division line, across from the table, waiting to inbound the ball to start the second poriod. Players start walking onto the court to start the period. I am standing, in front of the above mentioned coach, with the whistle in my mouth, counting players. The coach politely asks me about the call, whether my partner passed, or whether the buzzer came before the foul. I drop the whistle from my mouth to answer the coach, who thanks me for the information. Satisfied that there are the correct ten players on the court, and the clock is set at 8:00, I point to my partner to start the period. Within a few seconds there is an intentional kick in my primary. I blow the whistle for the violation, to find that it's not in my mouth. My partner comes to my aid with a quack whistle, and we move on, looking at each other and smilling as we move up the court after the inbounds, after the violation.

My story is similar....My first or second year as an official, I'm doing some Saturday afternoon games at the local Boys and Girls Club league. We have a time out and I am talking with the club director about something or the other. Time out ends and I yell some final comments to him as I retreat to my postion as lead on the baseline. Ball is put in play, Team A is passing the ball looking for an opening, team A player drives to the hole and is fouled going up, not hammered, but enough to make the call. My fist goes up and I blow some air....and nobody stops playing....shot is missed, team B rebounds and is off to the other end when I realize that my whistle is hanging around my neck...Oh well...off to the other end. Nobody says a word about the "missed" foul.

[Scrapper1]

In my case, I was the R and had to toss the jump ball. Drive went directly to the basket on my side of the court. As T, I had the foul call. Did the fist, blew out, did the whole thing; except that I never put the whistle back in my mouth after the toss.

[Back In The Saddle]

Have had two unusual situations.

Twice in one game a kick happens right in front of me and I spit out the whistle and shout "KICK!" Then I have to find my whistle and blow it. Have no idea why this happened. Never happened any other time.

JVB early this season, only a few seconds remaining in a 1 point game. H is pressing and ties up the ball in back court. I blow my whistle and signal jump ball. Suddenly my partner comes across the floor tweet-tweeting. V coach had requested a time out. But my partner had not entirely broken the football habit of not having his whistle in his mouth. We granted the TO, but H coach wasn't happy about it.

[DonInKansas]

I think I shared this earlier, but here's mine:

It's my first year this year: JHB, I'm administering a throw-in after a timeout. Defender breaks the plane of the OOB line and whacks the thrower on the arm. I get my fist up and go to blow the whistle and....pthuh. No sound except my whistle banging against my shirt. My partner blew his whistle for it, chuckling down the court as he reported it. Coach asked why he was making that (obvious) call from so far away; you could her the slap from a mile away.

[mj]

Originally Posted by kbilla

Speaking of spitting the whistle, anybody have any good stories?

A few years ago doing a very small school girl's game ball goes out on my line. After watching it bounce twice out of bounds my partner saved me from across the court. I have no idea where my head was...

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by kbilla

Speaking of spitting the whistle, anybody have any good stories?

My situation was slightly different. I had a cold during one game, and was fighting the sniffles and sneezes. At one point, after trying to hold back a sneeze, it finally came out: pttthhh....tweet...pppttt. Of course, play stops and everyone looks at me for the call. I just mutter something about an inadvertant whistle, and put the ball back in play. I think it took me a couple of plays to get the stuff wiped off my whistle.

[wfd21]

Had this last night BV 3man. B1 brings ball up court A1 & A2 set half court trap. B1 gets flustered and tries to make a desperate pass to teammate, ball in air B coach hollers "time out" I am T, ignore coach, A3 intercepts pass & go's in for uncontested lay-up & scores. B coach goes ballistic! Hollers you got to give me the time out! I says "you can have one now if you want" He starts telling me how wrong I was not grant his time out request. Tried to explain no player control onhis time out request, he don't get it. I swear some of these coaches just like to listen to themselves.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by wfd21

Had this last night BV 3man. B1 brings ball up court A1 & A2 set half court trap. B1 gets flustered and tries to make a desperate pass to teammate, ball in air B coach hollers "time out" I am T, ignore coach, A3 intercepts pass & go's in for uncontested lay-up & scores. B coach goes ballistic! Hollers you got to give me the time out! I says "you can have one now if you want" He starts telling me how wrong I was not grant his time out request. Tried to explain no player control onhis time out request, he don't get it. I swear some of these coaches just like to listen to themselves.

You should have put him in time-out. This is properly administered by awarding the opposing team 2FTs and the ball at the division line opposite the table, plus the coach no longer has the right to the coaching box.

[kbilla]

The sooner they disallow coaches from requesting TO's the better, would make life so much easier...all of the action is ON the court, it is completely counterintuitive that we should be expected to turn our back on the court in order to verify a TO request....makes no sense to me..