Consecutive Time-out

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Consider this situation:
Team A is travelling in two vans to the game site. Van 1 has the normal starting five and Van 2 has the second five. Van 1 gets a flat tire and is delayed. Van 2 is there in time for warm-ups and the scheduled tip-off.
The officials say that game must begin on time and so it does.
During the first dead ball, Coach A informs the official that he is going to take all five of his time-outs in the hope that his starting five can get there with more of the game left.

How would you handle that?

I would tell him to request the time out at the proper time -- if his team was due to throw-in, he should really wait until I get to 4 seconds on the count to maximize the time he's wasting. If the other team has the ball, request the time out before it's handed to the thrower-in. I would not just award 5 consecutive timeout and tell the timer to count down 4 minutes.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I would not just award 5 consecutive timeout and tell the timer to count down 4 minutes.

Why not? What rule prohibits the coach from requesting all five time-outs at once?

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Why not? What rule prohibits the coach from requesting all five time-outs at once?

The word successive, to me, means one after the other. I will grant them, one after the other.

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Why not? What rule prohibits the coach from requesting all five time-outs at once?

Digressing somewhat, any problem with coach saying "if we make free throw, time out". Situation could involve a foul, opposing coach wanting TO and first saying, I don't want it now as other coach requested one.

Just askin'

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by fullor30

Digressing somewhat, any problem with coach saying "if we make free throw, time out". Situation could involve a foul, opposing coach wanting TO and first saying, I don't want it now as other coach requested one.

Just askin'

As mentioned before, I don't believe we can grant TO's "in the future", so to speak. So what I say to a coach is something like, "Thanks for the heads-up, just give me a nod to confirm it when it happens". Then, if your partner has the other team's request before you get your nod, then obviously the other team gets the TO charged to them, since they requested it first.