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Grade School age 12-15.
A1 (about) 180 pounds comes down with a defensive rebound and brings the ball down to his waist. B1 (about) 110 pounds immediately grabs the ball. Now they both have it. No whistle for a jump ball and A1 whips around sending B1 to the floor. B1 is in immediate pain holding his leg. (no attempt to get up). No whistle.
A1 passes the ball up (no fast break) just a 5 on 4.
Within 10 seconds team A scores. After the shot, whistle for the injury. By this time the coach was on the floor with his player.
Player went out for awhile but did return to the game.
I spoke with one of the 2 refs and his logic was that if you whistle to early, players would fake injuries every time they got beat. That made sense to me at the time. Thinking about it now, the size mismatch and way the player hit (flew to) the floor, justified an immediate whistle.
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