Late Time outs

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
There really is not enough information in the description of the play to give a ruling.

As an official, I will listening for a coach to request a time-out as soon as the top of the ball clears the bottom of the basket.

Well, that's the problem. Sometimes we're otherwise
engaged, like maybe keeping an eye on the 2 big guys
who have been going at it the last 5 minutes, or maybe you
don't know if the coach is yelling "Time out!" or "Tyrone"
in the loud gym (it's happened to me), or whatever.
Anyway, the sitch is clear, you didn't notice that Coach A
wants a TO until B1 has the ball for the throw in.
What do you do now?

Again I say give the guy the TO. No one will complain,
IMO and if they do you can easily convince coach B that
you did the right thing, just make sure he gets to run the
endline. If the coach *clearly* requests TO too late then
don't grant it.