Time Out

[fiasco]

Originally Posted by zm1283

Yes. You better not be stopping the clock and calling nothing.

Then why is there such thing as an inadvertent whistle? Personally, I'd rather get the call right than keep myself from looking bad.

If you blow the whistle in response to a request for a timeout, you have to grant it, even if the defense asked for it.

I understand the argument. But I have yet to see this argument backed up by rule.

[Scratch85]

Originally Posted by fiasco

Then why is there such thing as an inadvertent whistle? Personally, I'd rather get the call right than keep myself from looking bad.



I understand the argument. But I have yet to see this argument backed up by rule.

IMO, the rule that backs it up is 5-8-3 and the case play 5.8.3E gives us an interpretation to apply when things are a bit screwed up.

If there was a case play that said, "if you think you saw a travel and you blew your whistle but you decided it wasn't a travel, you must go ahead and call the travel," then yes, I would go ahead and call a travel.