Injury timeout

[Danvrapp]

Had a situation this weekend in a 7th grade girls game that I wanted to discuss. There was a girl for team A that kept crying every time someone looked at her funny, and we (partner and I) would have her removed from the game because of 'injury.' I'd suggest this happened at least 3 times in the first three quarters. Now, there comes a time towards the end of the game that she was on defense and drew a charge on the opposing team. Well, wouldn't you know she stood up and started crying! So, as she started to walk to her bench, I waved the coach out. Now I'll say about 15 seconds elapsed before I approached the coach (in the middle of the floor) and innocently stated that if she's OK we either need to play on or get her replaced with a sub. WOW! The coach went ballistic and hollered things like "I thought this was supposed to be an injury timeout!" and "My girls have been getting beat (up) all *#$%@ game," amongst other stuff. He was really getting up in my face (got a towel?) and hollering like it was his job! T time. After the game, I reflected upon whether this warrented a T or not. What do you think?

Here's some intangibles:

1. The game was close. I belive the irate coach's team was losing by 2-3.

2. The game was almost over. About 45 seconds left.

3. The girl that got hurt was standing up, she never fell or lay down after the initial charge, and the coach had 4 of his girls wrapped up in a big everyone-will-be-OK kind of bearhug. I figure since she could stand, she could either play or walk to her bench so we could get on with the game. This is when I approached the coach.

4. Again, I waited a bit after the coach came on the floor to request that we continue playing.