Timeout or not

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Originally Posted by Nevadaref

The official is perfectly within his rights to decide that this action constitutes interfering with the ball following a goal. There is no denying that the player touched it and threw it somewhere. Not saying that I would make that determination, but I also can't state that any official doing so is totally wrong. I would even be likely to make this determination if the team was repeatedly catching the ball as it fell from the net and passing it to the nearest official. They have no right to do that. They need to leave the ball alone and allow the other team to collect it.

While by the exact rule you would be correct, you could do stop the game and issue a warning.
However based on the OP I still would not have done it - and in an evaluation of the official I would have not dinged him for his rules knowledge - I would issue with his game managment.
Based on the OP this is not a good managment of the game and is not a call that needs to be made - it is a game interupter and needs to be let go and keep the game moving.