Time out - know who has ball

[Hawks Coach]

Second straight week we had refs lose track of whose inbounds it was after a timeout. Both cases were time outs that occurred after we had forced a turnover and were getting ball OOB. One was a 5 second count that we forced, with the TO requested at when the ref was preparing to administer the inbound to our player. The most recent was after we made a basket then forced a wild pass in the back court that went off one of their player's hands and OOB. Again, TO was requested when we were preparing to inbound the ball.

In both cases, the ref looked really confused when we prepared to inbound the ball after the TO. The first he never got it right, saying that they had to have the ball to call timeout (ignoring the fact that the ball was dead). This weekend, we told him exactly what had happened and he still looked confused. He insisted that the other team was getting the ball because we just made a shot (why they had it a half court instead of running the baseline was yet to be explained) He went to his partner, she remembered and we got the ball. I was beginning to think this was going to happen every game!

Please remember to keep track of who had the ball when it is a timeout situation. Do a mental reset to be sure to get these things right.