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Originally posted by Ref Daddy
Need opinion's here. Will you "stop play" for any of these that I have seen?
1) Untied shoelace
2) Player looses shoe on court
3) Items inadvertant from stands hit floor (battery, kids toys, rubber ball)
4) kid crashs into own bench and tumbles heels over head so hard we cannot even see if they are hurt or not
5) finger in eye - kid down in pain
6) infant/toddler stumbling around under the basket with no parent in site
7) water or puddles on floor discovered during play
8) net tangled up on rim
9) clock not statrted by scorekeeper
10) eyeglass's knocked to floor in a crowded lane
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1: never while play is going on, I might delay making a dead ball live for a moment while a player ties the laces.
2: I have both stopped play and let them play - safety is the issue - where is the shoe?
3: Have not experienced.
4: Normal injury procedures.
5: Normal injury procedures.
6: If ball at other end, wait until ball starts coming back in hopes toddler will leave the court, otherwise, blow it dead.
7: Yes - get it cleaned up.
8: Blow dead when you notice it if active scoring play is not in process.
9: Yell at timekeeper to start clock, if that doesn't work, blow dead if active scoring play is not in process. Yell for the arrow to be set/reset, if that doesn't work then wait until next whistle to "instruct" the table.
10: Always. For some, it is the only pair of glasses they own.