NBA Rule?

[LDUB]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Please don't. It's irrelevant. It's not like "over the back", which perpetuates a gross misunderstanding of the rules. Does it really make any difference whether the coach "requests" it and we grant it or the coach "calls" it and we grant it? Either way, he's not getting it till we grant it. There's no misunderstanding about that.

I agree. The coach can call, yell, say, signal, request....a timeout. Unless someone says the coach granted himself a timeout then there shouldn't be a problem.