8:13 NJ - Official timeout
How many are scheduled in a game, and when? And...why?
Is it purely a TV-based thing?
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8:13 NJ - Official timeout
Jugs wrote: I saw two buttholes
tkb wrote:Primarily a TV thing. They happen after 9, 6 and 3 minutes every quarter.
wigglestrue wrote:12 automatic timeouts + up to 20 team timeouts (12 full, 8 twenties) + 2 quarter breaks and a halftime? That's a ****load of breaks. Really slowing the pace of what ought to be a fluid, fast-paced sport, christ...and so many fouls (and there seems to be an unofficial quota of sorts for those) and free throws...boooooooo. I guess compared to baseball it's not a ****load, though -- it's more or less the same, since none of the 20 second timeouts lead to commercial breaks (well, wait...there are those commercials scripted for the announcers, so scratch that). Baseball has [adding]...17 half inning breaks, and...usually a few pitching changes[/adding]...so that's about 20-25 breaks in a baseball game. But that's baseball, where people expect the game to be slow and incremental. For basketball to have more breaks than baseball is crazy, IMO.
There are 10 automatic timeouts in a NBA game. They occur at the first dead ball following the 6:00 and 3:00 marks in the 1st and 3rd quarter, and the first dead ball following the 9:00, 6:00, and 3:00 mark in the 2nd and 4th quarter. These official timeouts count towards the 6 full timeout each time has. Each time is forced to call an official timeout at the mandatory timemarks, and each team is charged alternatively for these. If a timeout occurs before the mandatory timemark, it will remove the official timeout obligation from being called at the next available timemark.
Those sponsors don't just make those leagues wealthy for nothing, they expect to see their ads run.