Minimum time elapsed?

[Tio]

Originally Posted by letemplay

The coach can tell an official ahead of time, "on the miss, we're calling time" or "we're throwin it to here and calling time" Then the play happens and they are yellin for the TO before the ball even hits the players hand so that it's almost startin the clock and stoppin it in one motion.

The coach still needs to request the timeout when his team is in possession of the ball...and then the clock stops on your whistle. It is entirely possible that more than 0.3 seconds come off during this sequence. Don't over referee the clock... when you blow your whistle, look at the clock and as long as it isn't running after your whistle blows, you are fine.