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Old Wed Mar 11, 2009, 01:53pm
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Temporarily forgetting about the argument made for the amount of time necessary for a player to secure control of the ball versus when the clock starts, anybody think about the obvious point of how long it takes the coach to actually say "time out"?

- Clock doesn't start until a player touches the ball after the missed FT
- Coach can't call timeout until player on his team has possession of the ball
- Once posession has been established, he may request a TO

Now unless the coach is this guy, it's gonna take a minimum of a few tenths of a second to physically spit out the words, "time out". Yes, I know the coach can visually request a time-out instead of saying it, but for no time to come off the clock the request would have to come at the same time as they gain possession, and if you're an official watching a coach in this situation, instead of the players, you've got bigger problems...

I do think it impossible for no time to come off the clock, however I'm not going to guesstimate how much time is supposed to be put on the clock. Coach might have to live with the fact that he may not get that TO. I know it's gonna be a tough sell when he complains that he should get a TO with the full .6, but nobody said our job was easy...
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