TO request when you have no timeouts

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

You should as it's a required duty of an official.

It is required for the scorekeeper to inform the coach through us. It is not required for us to ever find out what the timeout situation is for their team. This is not football, we do not keep track of that situation ourselves.

This is clearly stated in Rule 2-11-6.

It is not our duty, it is the scorer's duty. If they do not tell us anything, I do not ask. And I repeat, they already know. Now if they ask me while I am near their huddle (which is very rare) I will find out for them to be sure, but not something I do on my own. And it has worked that way all these years, I do not see any reason to do anything different. I want to stay away from benches as much as possible.

Peace