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Originally posted by mick
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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
Am I missing something here. A1 is injured and Team B is not making any play toward the basket. The fact the A1 walked to his bench is not germain to the play. A1 was injured. The play met the criteria for the game to be stopped by the game officials. And as far as the camp counselor who chewed your tuckus for stopping the game tell him to contact me so I can chew his tuckus for being and idiot.
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Thanks for pointing that out, Mark T.
That totally escaped me.
I kicked another one.
mick
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I don't know that you kicked this one at all,mick.I think that the evaluator may have been more upset with the actual timing of the whistle,rather than the fact that the whistle was blown.The usual procedure is to(1)evaluate the injury,then(2)blow it dead immediately if the player is definitely seriously injured,or(3)blow it dead unless the other team is in the midst of a scoring effort if there is a chance that it is a serious injury,or(4)delay the whistle until his team had the ball or the scoring chance is over if you feel the injury is not of a serious nature.The time lag for a whistle for #3 is usually a second or so after you evaluate the player and check the play,not the amount of time that it takes for a player to walk off the floor to his bench.If you delay that long,you're probably into #4.I think the evaluator may have been trying to make the point that crew's evaluation may have been correct,but it should have been made quicker and not delayed until the player got off the court.
Note:I realise that #2 is debatable,but if I think that a player is seriously hurt,I'm gonna get someone looking at him asap,no matter where the ball is.
[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Aug 23rd, 2002 at 12:56 PM]