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Originally posted by coachmac43
Obviously, I'm surprised at what I'm hearing.
This was a Freshman girls game also. The young lady was poked in the eye as we made a basket. (not the shooter) She immediately bent over and covered her face. I asked immediately about the injury and the officials went ahead and let the other team inbound the ball and go run offense. The injured player stayed at the other end with her face covered. Aren't games stopped to tuck a shirt in or tie a shoe? Isn't an injury more important than that?
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If the ball was not in play yet, then you could have called a TO. In a HS game, for a poked eye, I believe there are very few officials who would stop play when the other team has the ball. For me, if this was a 5th or 6th grade game, I would stop play once it was apparent that the other team was not in an immediate attack on the basket; older than that, I wouldn't stop while the other team had the ball.