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Old Wed Jan 23, 2008, 02:09pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by JoeTheRef
Me personally, if a player is on the floor like he is injured and he/she is the defensive player, I'm not blowing the whistle unless there are other players around the injured player or there is a possiblity that that person can get hurt or others can get hurt, or if I see that the player is seriously hurt then I will kill the play immediately. I will then blow the whistle when the hurt player's team gains control.
This is not a personal thing that is the way the rule reads to some extent. And in the example given, the coach did not comment about who was on offense or defense. And when a player is injured you are not supposed to stop a fast break but you can stop play if action has slowed down.

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