Live ball/dead ball...

[Dan_ref]

All this discussion around the "correct procedure" thread
had me thinking of live ball vs dead ball, and this actually
helped me tonight in a "disagreement" with a coach.
Ugly situation, last minute or so, I'm T watching B1 apply
backcourt pressure to A1 under B's basket. My partner is
about midcourt & coach A asks for timeout, which he grants.
A split second after that I whistle A1 for a PC, big push
off. Eesh. So we huddle and decide the TO came before the
foul. I go to coach B and tell him yes, I had the PC but
my partner had coach A's TO first, and since we can't have
a personal foul during a dead ball we got nothing because
A1's actions were not T-worthy. I broke this down by
hitting on live ball/dead ball, I'm sure I would not
have been able to make it this simple if I had not been
thinking in those terms today. BTW, the coach was astounded
that I thought we could not have a personal foul during a
dead ball. Even though I emphasised we can only have a T
during a dead ball I'm sure he thought I was saying you
can't have ANY fouls during a dead ball. I think he
eventually got it 'cause he just walked away after I said
for the fifth time "Only T's during a dead ball, can't have
a personal foul during a dead ball. TO means a dead ball."
To end the story, B lost kinda big, they were not that good,
but coach B was very good because he knew how to push us
just to the brink of a T before backing off. One of the
very few times I left a game with "one in my pocket".