I'm sure we all know about the 16,12,8, and 4 minute mark tv timeouts that occur in college basketball. But are there scheduled tv timeout regulations for other sports that anybody knows of? (football with possessions? hockey with time? etc...) I'm watching the Pistons right now seeing if I can figure it out but haven't had any luck.

3/7/2007 8:02:55 PM

NBA is a little more complicated/

In the 1st and 3rd quarters, if the clock goes under 6 minutes and no timeouts have been taken, at the next dead ball the home team is charged a timeout.

If no other timeouts are called before the 3 minute mark, then the away team is charged with one at the next dead ball.

In the 2nd and 4th quarters, a timeout is called at the first dead ball under 9 minutes, but neither team is charged.

Then the same rules at 6 and 3 minutes as the 1st and 3rd quarters.



Harder to pick up than the every 4 minute policy of college, but watch enough NBA and you pick it up fairly quickly.

3/7/2007 8:15:49 PM

NHL @ 14 minutes, 10 minutes, and 6 minutes



[Edited on March 7, 2007 at 8:41 PM. Reason : ]

3/7/2007 8:36:57 PM

I had no idea regarding the NBA, that's pretty lame, what if a team runs out of timeouts when they are scheduled to be charged a T.O.

3/7/2007 9:10:04 PM

Those NHL numbers are right, but the TV timeout is automatically bumped to the next stoppage if a goal occurs before a scheduled TV timeout; it gets bumped because the league mandates that there be 40 seconds of time between a goal and the center faceoff to allow for replays.

3/8/2007 1:07:57 AM

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"I had no idea regarding the NBA, that's pretty lame, what if a team runs out of timeouts when they are scheduled to be charged a T.O."

Technical foul.

3/8/2007 9:56:46 AM

I like when there is like 11:57 left in a college half and the ball rolls out of bounds and I just walk off knowing that theres gonna be a TV timeout

3/8/2007 10:43:08 AM

I hate when there is 12:02 left in a college half and a coach takes a full timeout, goes to commercial, comes back and the ball rolls out of bounds about 4 seconds after they start play again...

3/8/2007 11:46:58 AM

^^^ Can't happen. The team starts with at least 1 timeout per half and are only charged a TO if one has yet to be taken.

3/8/2007 11:56:29 AM

The worst one is in the NFL when there is a timeout after a score and then after the ensuing kickoff.

I also hate how CBS insists on inserting a commercial at every timeout (even 30 seconds) during a college basketball game while everyone else will actually stick with the game and actually offer some analysis or something.

3/8/2007 12:00:54 PM

^^ i'm pretty sure i remember an nba team being charged a technical last year for not having a timeout

3/8/2007 12:01:44 PM

^ I remember that, too. coach was pissed off and kept calling timeouts and the announcers made a point to say that he'll be called for a tech in the 4th because there weren't enough left.

3/8/2007 12:03:53 PM

In the 1st and 3rd quarters, if the clock goes under 6 minutes and no timeouts have been taken, at the next dead ball the home team is charged a timeout.

If no other timeouts are called before the 3 minute mark, then the away team is charged with one at the next dead ball.

In the 2nd and 4th quarters, a timeout is called at the first dead ball under 9 minutes, but neither team is charged.

Then the same rules at 6 and 3 minutes as the 1st and 3rd quarters.

If these are the actual rules, then there is no logical way a team could be charged an "official" timeout without having one to give considering both teams have at least 1 TO per half. If a team does call a TO, that negates these issues

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3/8/2007 12:08:14 PM

^^ If that's the case, then the rules above are not really how it works

3/8/2007 12:10:24 PM

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"i'm pretty sure i remember an nba team being charged a technical last year for not having a timeout"

That was Dallas.

3/8/2007 6:58:33 PM

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"coach was pissed off and kept calling timeouts"

yeah, avery johnson is wacky

3/8/2007 7:14:49 PM

um it can happen in the 2nd & 4th quarters. obviously it can't happen in the 1st or 3rd

3/8/2007 7:19:12 PM

intersting find via wikipedia:

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"In what has been called the greatest game ever played[1], Game 5 of the 1976 NBA Finals between the Phoenix Suns and Boston Celtics, the Suns found themselves one point down with one second left in double overtime, no time outs remaining and possession of the ball under their defensive basket after a John Havlicek bucket. Faced with the near-impossibility of sinking an 80 foot desperation shot, Suns' guard Paul Westphal hit upon an unusual solution. He intentionally called a timeout the Suns did not have. While this gave the Celtics a free throw, which Jo Jo White successfully converted to increase the lead to two, it gave the Suns possession at halfcourt. This enabled Gar Heard to sink an 18-footer as time expired to force a third overtime. NBA rules were changed the following year to prevent a repeat occurrence by not advancing the inbounds pass to halfcourt in similar situations."

3/8/2007 7:22:03 PM

Official/media timeouts used to be at the discretion of the school's clockkeeper. The ACC went to the regular intervals after Dean complained after a game @ Wake, in which clock operator Skeeter Francis (a Wake professor) called an official timeout every time UNC went on a run.

3/8/2007 7:42:42 PM

gg skeeter

3/8/2007 7:47:37 PM

heh

3/8/2007 7:52:57 PM

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"um it can happen in the 2nd & 4th quarters. obviously it can't happen in the 1st or 3rd"

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"In the 2nd and 4th quarters, a timeout is called at the first dead ball under 9 minutes, but neither team is charged. "

I was simply saying that if these were the actual rules, it would be impossible. If it's happened in the past, then obviously they do it some other way.

3/9/2007 10:04:38 AM

It's regodamndiculous that in basketball that last 1 minute can last 10+ minutes... because of the damn time outs and ass backward logic of fouling... timeout TVtime out, time out, time out, foul foul foul timeout time out... foul...

every one else needs to follow hockey's lead: 1 timeout per game and 3 quick tv time outs per period.

3/9/2007 12:15:22 PM

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""In what has been called the greatest game ever played[1], Game 5 of the 1976 NBA Finals between the Phoenix Suns and Boston Celtics, the Suns found themselves one point down with one second left in double overtime, no time outs remaining and possession of the ball under their defensive basket after a John Havlicek bucket. Faced with the near-impossibility of sinking an 80 foot desperation shot, Suns' guard Paul Westphal hit upon an unusual solution. He intentionally called a timeout the Suns did not have. While this gave the Celtics a free throw, which Jo Jo White successfully converted to increase the lead to two, it gave the Suns possession at halfcourt. This enabled Gar Heard to sink an 18-footer as time expired to force a third overtime. NBA rules were changed the following year to prevent a repeat occurrence by not advancing the inbounds pass to halfcourt in similar situations.""

thats pretty smart of westphal, but if I wanted to get a technical intentionally, I'd do something more fun like call the ref a cocksucker or punt the ball into the stands.

3/9/2007 1:56:08 PM