Scheduler is NOT my friend!

[Brad]

Originally Posted by egj13

I see the A coach hollering to his players "bucket, time out, bucket time out". Well my partner at L thinks he is talking to her.

Problem #1: "Thinks"

Problem #2: Not telling the coach he was out of timeouts. If you do this, he likely starts throwing a fit saying, "I didn't call timeout!!!" ... And then you just get both teams back on the floor immediately and put the ball in play.

Originally Posted by egj13

Of course he goes nuts wondering who requested his last TO...partner says "you did coach". We talk and I tell her we have to T him

Problem #3: You don't have to T him — and you shouldn't. This is your crew's screwup. You granted a time-out that was not requested. That shouldn't be charged to the head coach and the team shouldn't be penalized for something your partner thought happened. This was your chance to right the wrong — explain what happened to both coaches and the timeout counts for no one.

Best thing to do is learn from the experience. If you do that, it's most likely that you'll never find yourself in that same predicament!