Assistant Coach to the Table

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As an AC myself, I will say that one of my roles during the game is to keep track of personal fouls and timeouts, and I am in constant communication with our scorekeeper to make sure that my count is correct.

I will always check in with the scorekeeper at half-time and also during most time-outs as these are the times that he is least busy. I have never had an official question this and as an official I don't have a problem with an AC checking in like that.

The problem arises when a coach is at the table questioning the timekeeper or the official scorer of his/her accuracy. To me that is the behavior that we as officials should be wary of. Not allowing an AC to double check the number of time-outs he has is being an OOO in my opinion.