Time Out Mania

[Chess Ref]

I'm seeing some things around time outs that I'm not liking so much.

First did I miss the meeting where loose balls go to the first coach to call time out ? Ball pinballing around in the grey area of our PCA,2 man. In the middle of this we have tweet, and my partner has a TO for one of the teams. This wasn't a case of different angles this was a case of a recent phenom in my area of whoever calls a TO first gets the loose ball.

It's a little frustrating cause i don't give the TO till I see a player in control of the ball. Because i don't give the TO I get to continually have the following conversation of

Coach: I called time out.
Me: didn't have control of the ball yet coach
coach : but I called TO
me: shrug.

Here's one I would like to hear your thoughts on....

Visitors score. Visiting coach is asking for a time out. No one initally grants one. Home team brings ball in and is about 3/4 of the way to the division line when the visitors request is granted. So we have big racket over that by the home team.

So I talk to the 2 refs at half time to hear what they had to say.

Old Lead/NEw trail said ' I heard someone asking for timeout but didn't know who it was. When I figured it out I gave it to him. "

Old Trail/New Lead said" My bad I should have been paying attention but I wasn't."


Would you have granted the late TO in this Sitch ?