Blew a time out call
 

Team A bringing ball up court with no pressure and B coach jumps up and wants a Time out. I blow my whistle and as soon as I did I realized team A had the ball. I went through and gave B their Time out but could I have just gone with an inadvertant whistle. I knew immedietely before I granted the Time out I was wrong. :eek:
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IMO: if all you've done is blow the whistle, then all you have is an IW, making the ball dead. If B then requests a TO, you gotta give it to them. However, if after the IW, you do signal, I think you can't retract it.

Case 5.8.3 Situation E says once granted the time-out cannot be revoked and is charged to Team B. [shrug]

That is one of the reasons that I always pause before granting a timeout just to make sure its the team with the ball asking for one. I have had coaches try this several times and pausing usually helps!!!! It has happened to everyone....live and learn.

Pausing is ideal but sometimes not realistic. On a loose ball where you have a scrum, both coaching acting like the sky is falling while requesting a time out and leaving yoou to decide.

I have however, done exactly what you said. I went with IW, then asked B coach if they still wanted the T.O. which they did, thankfully.

What if youo went with the IW and then the coach said no thanks I don't need T.O. now????

On a loose ball when both are screaming for it, you can only grant a timeout once a player establishes control, and I only grant it if that player clearly has control on his own - otherwise held ball.

So I don't see why pausing is an issue at all there. Let someone get control, determine their team wants the TO, and then grant it.

yes and while your pausing after control has been established, 3 more kids pile on knocking the ball loose

Um, if kids pile on, that's a foul.

That was a POE a few years ago.

Besides Jurassic being correct, I'm not advocating pausing long, simply saying that if I see a player has control, and know that team is requesting a TO, I'm simply glancing quickly to make certain his bench wants it - basically as I'm granting it. If in the tenths of a second it takes to verify what I've heard someone knocks it loose, I'm still granting the TO.

Same as if I verify a coach wants a TO after a made basket, but by the time I blow my whistle the other team is already inbounding the ball - the TO was actually granted before the team had the ball at its disposal, my whistle was just late.

Can FIBA, or "Feeble", Possibly Be Better ???
 

A good reason for the NFHS to change the rule back to when only a player on the floor could call, oops, I mean request, a timeout.

I understand that FIBA rules are even more restrictive, and make the official's job even easier to grant timeouts.

Last night, I'm watching a V first round playoff game. A1 misses a shot, ball batted around, scrum for the loose ball, B1 comes up with it and goes the other way. A2 is sprawled on the floor under A's basket. B moves down floor and is into running it's offense 5 on 4. A2 limps by Trail still in the backcourt and says something to him. Trail immediately calls timeout....B coach goes nuts! He seemed to be saying - How can you call a timeout when I have the ball and am moving in for a shot? You can't do that! That's wrong! What's your reasoning?

A2 limps off and is replaced. T and C meet at halfcourt......I woulda like to have heard that conversation....... Ball put back in play by B, under B's basket - where it was at POI.

There is a D1 superviser out west that hates this thinking. Who did the official charge the timeout to?

It has nothing to do with a timeout, but I hope everyone paid attention to what Jurassic said. If one player is on the floor and someone jumps on him to tie the ball up that isn't a held ball, it is a foul. This play is overlooked too often - probably because it isn't a popular call.

I believe it was an officials timeout. Not charged to a team. Player was replaced quickly and ball put in play.