Coaches "request" timeouts. Officials "call" timeouts if the request is made at an appropriate time.

It's a semantic issue that seems to draw fire everytime someone gets it "wrong" in here.

The funny thing is, the case book makes the same semantic "error," if I remember correctly.

I haven't looked at anybody's answers but here I go:

1) It was after the horn; or it was close to the horn but would have caused OT

2) They didn't see it

3) It's during the intermission before OT and the refs are pissed at A1 for missing the game-winning free throw, so they ignore him.

I like jokes here as much as (and probably more than) anyone, so if they were jokes, I accept that. Next time, use a smiley face or something similar, or else make it really obvious that it was a joke.

Sorry if I came back too strong.

I teach the newbies in my league that if that happens, call violations on the non-shooting team until the kid hits one (a FT, not an opponent). ;)

Call A Timeout ???
 

That's how we tell the difference between us and, "Them". Now you've given it away. Please delete your post, or we'll do the same thing to you that we did to Old School. You don't see him posting anymore on this Forum? Do you? Enough said.

You remember correctly:
*3.2.2 SITUATION F: ... time-out is called.
3.3.1 SITUATION D: ... time-out is called.
3.3.6 SITUATION A: ... call a time-out.
3.3.6 SITUATION B: ... call a time-out.
3.3.7 SITUATION B: ...call a time-out.
3.3.7 SITUATION C: ... call a time-out.
4.34.1 SITUATION: ... calls a time-out.
4.44.3 SITUATION C: ... call a time-out.
4.44.5 SITUATION B: ... call a time-out.
4.44.5 SITUATION D: ... call a time-out.
6.1.2 SITUATION B: ... calls for a time-out.

Officials call timeouts? Can you find one spot in either the rule or case book where it says anything about officials calling timeouts?

Anyone who thinks that this is an error needs to actually read the rule book and see that the what the official does when there is a timeout request is called granting a timeout. Apparently some people have imagined the word calling replacing granting and therefore consider it incorrect to say that a player called timeout when in actuality they were the one who didn't know the proper term.

Look, by rule, coaches and players can only request a timeout. The only people who can actually "call" anything have whistles; that's where the semantics come from.

Like I alluded to before, though, it's not a big deal except to some.

I know!
 

We can put it in the "pet peeve" thread....if it's not already there.

These cross-thread posts are a pet peeve of mine....... ;)

These posts complaining about cross-thread posts are a pet peeve of mine. ;)

Also, these posts complaining about complaining about cross-thread posts are a pet peeve of mine. There - I beat ya' to it. :D