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Originally posted by crew
nc2a or fed situation.
player a1 goes to the basket out of control and throws up a prayer for a shot. lands and falls to the floor awkwardly on his arm. b1 secures the ball and slowly dribbles the ball to the front court as a1 stands up ands walks to his bench obviously injured and takes hisself out of the game while the ball is in play.
me personally, i suspended play because there was no fast break. the critiquer on the court chewed my butt after the game for suspending play. i was totally in awe and did not have a clue of what else should be done. he said that if he is able to walk off the court that as an official we should wait for that team to gain possession to to suspend play.
i thought to myself isnt it illegal to play with 4 players when you have 5 legal players availble and about ten other possiblr controversial things that could happen.
i just thought to myself this is a neat easy and everyone buys what is happening. oh well.
are you guys thinking any thing else should be done? maybe i was in tunnel vision.
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crew,
With the player leaving the court on his own accord, I see no reason to halt play.
There has been past discussion here regarding the officials actions during this time.
I subscribe to having the Trail official lag behind the new possession to make it apparent that the injury was "noted".
Then, on the next change of possession, kill the ball.
mick