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Calling Timeout With None Left
In the game last night, David Blatt attempted to call a timeout even though the Cavs didn't have any. The officials never saw it so nothing happened, but it raised a question in my mind.....
As an official, if you see a coach/player calling for timeout when you know their team doesn't have any timeouts remaining, do you grant the timeout and issue a technical foul or do you simply ignore the timeout request? Does the situation in which the timeout is requested alter how you handle this? For instance, a coach trying to set up a play where perhaps there isn't as much urgency vs when a player is being trapped and calls for a desperation timeout. |
A team is always entitled to request a timeout if they have the ball.
Sometimes the price is a technical foul. |
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Teams are allowed an excess timeout at the expense of a technical foul. And the rules don't change based on how great the "sense of urgency" is.
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In NFHS you grant the timeout and charge the team with a team technical foul. After the TO is complete, the opponent shoots the two free throws for the T and gets the ball OOB at the division line. |
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Slightly Related ...
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"Coach, you have one timeout left", is a courtesy often extended by officials to coaches, when, by rule, officials should only be notifying head coaches when their team has been granted its final allowable timeout. If there is any miscommunication, or mistake, involving the table crew reporting remaining timeouts, then the officials, by rule, need to stay out of the conversation. Let the coaches, and table crew, communicate about remaining timeouts, other than when a team has been granted its final allowable timeout, which by rule, is required to be reported to the coach by the officials. |
"Coach - that was your final timeout. However, for a small fee, I can get you another one off ebay." :rolleyes:
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