Help with odd Scenario

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by CountTheBasket

If he's smart enough to do that, he earned the 5 second rest for his defense. Again this is strictly rec ball, I don't go around like some renegade official changing rules as I please in HS. I just think sometimes you need to make some common sense decisions and know where you are.

This requires no bit of cunningness at all.

I'm not saying he intentionally called a timeout when he wasn't allowed to, hoping you'd call it and then ignore the rule, so he'd get his timeout back.

I'm saying he called timeout to reset his defense (or any number of other reasons). That's all. You let him do so ... but then didn't charge the timeout. So he got what he wanted, and as an added bonus, he gets to keep his TO.

It's not a horrible thing (especially in rec) that you mistakenly stopped play - a minor mistake in the scheme of things. But don't make it doubly so by not charging the timeout.