How not to miss a timeout request

[Pantherdreams]

Don't normally get to gloat over FIBA rules but none of this is an issue as timeouts are only during dead balls and the table deals with timeout requests.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Pantherdreams

Don't normally get to gloat over FIBA rules but none of this is an issue as timeouts are only during dead balls and the table deals with timeout requests.

Agreed!

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Pantherdreams

Don't normally get to gloat over FIBA rules but none of this is an issue as timeouts are only during dead balls and the table deals with timeout requests.

Wasn't it the FIBA Rule that created the controversy between Russia and the USA in 1972? Not sure I would be gloating about that considering all the confusion that called. And I am not an American that thinks we got hosed either. I just saw a documentary that went through the rule and how the rule was apparently screwed up by the table. I will take the occasional coach getting upset about this than what happened with all the confusion I saw in the Olympics.

Peace

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Wasn't it the FIBA Rule that created the controversy between Russia and the USA in 1972? Not sure I would be gloating about that considering all the confusion that called. And I am not an American that thinks we got hosed either. I just saw a documentary that went through the rule and how the rule was apparently screwed up by the table. I will take the occasional coach getting upset about this than what happened with all the confusion I saw in the Olympics.

Peace

I don't think a rule screw up would permit that type of screw up.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

I don't think a rule screw up would permit that type of screw up.

My point is that any rule has its problems. And that rule obviously created a problem in the application. I used to love the fact coaches could request a timeout, but their reaction is the reason we should take that away during live ball situations.

Peace

[Pantherdreams]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

My point is that any rule has its problems. And that rule obviously created a problem in the application. I used to love the fact coaches could request a timeout, but their reaction is the reason we should take that away during live ball situations.

Peace

Luckily the rule in question in the 72 incident is no longer the rule and the timeout can only be granted before the first or after the last. So there would not be a reason to interrupt the game and cause the confusion. Also there would now be no running clock in the last 2 minutes so the need to inbound a live bal in a late game would not cause problems.