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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
Why? If A1 appear injured, err on the side of safety and stop the game. Don't force a team to take a timeout to deal with and injury even if the player is wanting to keep playing or is trying to play through it. Stop play, let the coach either get them out of the game or indicate that they're OK.
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I did check with him once before. He insisted he was ok and he and coached said he should play. Then, when it happened again, we held whistles as he was not in harms way but after B scored he was walk/jogging (just as he had done before) to get inbounds pass. That was a sign to me that he was still ok so I didn't whistle. After he got the ball and was dribbling up the court the coach calls TO. From the time B scored and A1 received ball and was dribbling upcourt was only a matter of seconds. He appeared to be in as good condition as he had been when coach and he said he was good to play. Both times he had gone to the floor, then gotten up, limped a step or two and then started to jog. IMHO - we handled this correctly. If he had remained on the floor, or couldn't jog or move freely it might have been different. The coach could also have just said "he's hurt" and we could have whistled an injury. He choose to call a TO. It was granted.