Final TO

[Hawks Coach]

Originally posted by w_sohl

Your scorer should be having this discussion with the table, not the officials. You have a scorer for a reason, to keep track of the game, if they aren't doing that kick them off the team and take their letter away, they don't deserve it.

Let's make this a little clearer. I call TO, my 4th. Table and my scorer agree. My opponent calls TO, it's marked as OUR last TO in the official book, my scorer marks it correctly. My scorer doesn't compare notes because we didn't call TO and the books balanced the last time we did call TO.

If you are communicating with the table regarding the TO situation and they tell you at this moment that this is my last TO, we are liable to be able to fix the official book because it is fresh in your mind who called TO and the table is clearly wrong. I call TO 3 minutes later and we are hosed because we won't be able to reconstruct that the table was wrong 3 minutes ago. This simply because you didn't think it was your job to tell me I am out of TOs.

JRUT -
You are completely inconsistent in your so-called logic. Your response is that I need to keep a book, but that isn't really relevant. My book doesn't count, and it is your job to tell me when the official book says I am out of TOs. My having a scorer is irrelevant if my scorer's version of events will have no impact on your decisions.

You say you will go by the official book and I agree. You need to tell me what the official book says, because my book can have it right but we will be held to a book that may be wrong. I need to know that the official book says we are out of timeouts, and you're supposed to tell me.