Time Out Mania

[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..

[voiceoflg]

Originally Posted by 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..

Case in point:

Loachapoka coach Terry Murph couldn’t have begged any harder for a timeout.

Trailing by four to Auburn with 4.5 seconds left, Loachapoka forced a turnover on an inbounds pass and Quin Richardson scored quickly with just over 2 seconds left.

Murph screamed for a timeout. He jumped up and down to draw the attention of one of the three referees. He did everything short of running across the court to get in the face of an official to get the timeout called.

The refs didn’t see him.

Time ran out.

Auburn won, 52-50.

It happens. It would have been better had the players learned when to call TO. But these are HS varsity kids.

[canuckref]

Originally Posted by 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..

this is the first year of fiba for me after many years of ncaa and nfhs reffing. I cannot tell you how much easier it is to have the fiba rule that timeouts must be requested through the scorers table and then granted at the next whistle after notifying the ref by sounding the horn (like subs). All this silliness that coaches and players get involved with (falling/leaping out of bounds, no control, can't hear the requests...etc.) asking for a timeout has been eliminated. I love it, and it makes the game outcome more centered on the players rather than a coaching call. Interesting that most of the FIBA rules have this overriding principle: the players shall determine the outcome of the game (not refs, coaches or spectators) and the rules are built on this simple principle.