Simultaneous Timeouts

[Rob1968]

2013-2015 Officials Manual p.39 2.4.4 Time-outs:
A. General Provisions:
11. If opponents simultaneously request a time-out during a dead ball, charge a time-out to each (or better, hear or see one request before the other).

[HokiePaul]

If you are going to have a simultaneous timeout, this is about the perfect situation in my opinion because you are certain that both were requested at the same time (as soon as the basket was made).

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by HokiePaul

If you are going to have a simultaneous timeout, this is about the perfect situation in my opinion because you are certain that both were requested at the same time (as soon as the basket was made).

I agree. In the normal course of the game, "simultaneous" timeouts are not really simultaneous and I would agree with the mentor above who said give it to the one you saw first.

In THIS case, both warned you and both probably had their hands up before the basket - by definition both are at the same exact time. Simultaneous - charge to both.

[SCalScoreKeeper]

Had a coach between foul shots in a varsity boys tournament game use all 5 of his timeouts with 0.1 left on the clock and his team ahead 1.never seen that before.