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Once a team score, the game stops (I'd argue we also need to start stopping the clock during this time as has now become the standard in recent tournaments).
The game does not start again until the other team crosses halfway, which can't happen until all of the opposing team have returned to their half of the court. During this "dead time" a team may call a time-out (or they can call a time-out whenever they have possession in-game).
Simples. The advantage/disadvantage things is leveled out by the fact that you don't retain control of the ball after your time-out during "dead time" surely? Or I'm confused.
I repeat, if a time-out is called during "dead-time" (after a goal) then the ball should be given to whoever was scored on, not whoever called time-out.
If we wanted a simpler rule we should perhaps argue that the ball should be turned over when a time-out is called, this punishes people for calling time-outs which can be a good thing (more predictable games during tournaments) but can be a bad thing (encouraging players to damage the opponents bike to get a small advantage on the time-out, etc).