injured player replacement

[bigdogrunnin]

Originally Posted by mbyron

I had one like this a few weeks ago. Kid from the home team comes up the court with time expiring in the 3rd quarter. He's about 6 feet outside the 3-point arc and is putting up his buzzer-beater. Along comes a visiting player and, HORN, SMACK, and knocks the kid down. Kid rolled his ankle on the landing.

The visiting coach was annoyed that a sub got to shoot the FT's. He whined that the other coach picked his best shooter (maybe so), he whined that the kid was on the floor when the foul occurred (he wasn't), he whined that the kid had alread been in the game (irrelevant), he whined that the FT's should have been canceled because the quarter was over (BS).

Then he started whining at the top of the 4th quarter: the kid who was hurt couldn't start the 4th quarter, since he was injured at the end of the 3rd (BS, but he wasn't on the floor anyway). Wow, that guy was annoying!

He kept asking questions in a respectful manner, so I couldn't really do much beyond putting the ball in play and getting him to start coaching again.

If the horn sounded, then the play and the ball were DEAD, hence no legal shot could be attempted, therefore, there could be no foul unless you judged the foul to be such that it could not be ignored. In which case you must assess technical foul. Is that what happened? Seems to me the coach has a darn good argument. JMO