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Originally Posted by gojeremy
Anyone who saw the Louisville/Duke game saw the gruesome injury and the emotion from both teams and coaches. To all you veterans I'm just curious how, as an official, you keep emotion out of calling a fair game?
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That would be a tough situation. I have never had the experience of calling a game in which a player suffered a serious injury that required a delay to remove an injured player from the floor by EMS. The worst injury situation I had in BBall was a rec league game were a player torn his Achilles Tendon on a drive to the basket. He was swearing at me and my partner that someone stepped on his heal during the drive, but he was never touched, it just went.
We didn't have the heart to call a T on him even though a normal situation would have warranted a T being called for his behavior. He finally calmed down on the bench when one of the fans showed him a video of the play where he saw he wasn't touched, he just called us over and apologized to us for his behavior because he was wrong about what happened. That was right before EMS arrived to take him to UofM hospital. He had hopped over to the bench after he was hurt and then the team decided to call EMS because they weren't sure how to get him to the hospital.
I did have a friend who was officiating a HS Volleyball match. A young lady came down wrong and blew her knee badly. It was a dislocated knee with ACL, MCL, and PCL tears. They ended up having to move the match to an adjacent court because of the delay in treating her. I wasn't there for that event, but I did know the young lady who was injured. She was a great track athlete as well and it cost her a senior year track season as she recovered.