Stopping Play for Injury

[walter]

Rut, I agree it is covered in the rules but, I want to make sure that everyone on the crew is on the same page regarding when they should stop play and when we shouldn't. I've covered it when I am the "R" and I have had it covered when I was a "U" both in high school and college. Again, my rationale is it is one of those things that doesn't happen often but when it does, we should know how to handle it. It takes about 15 seconds of a pre-game. By the way, I haven't looked but, did you update the other post about how your tv game went?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by walter

Rut, I agree it is covered in the rules but, I want to make sure that everyone on the crew is on the same page regarding when they should stop play and when we shouldn't. I've covered it when I am the "R" and I have had it covered when I was a "U" both in high school and college. Again, my rationale is it is one of those things that doesn't happen often but when it does, we should know how to handle it. It takes about 15 seconds of a pre-game. By the way, I haven't looked but, did you update the other post about how your tv game went?

All I am saying it is already in the rule. And since these are rare, every situation is going to be judged differently just because of the nature of these situations. And if your concern is that a kid will fake, this is why the rule is in place to allow the opponent to continue their movement to the basket. Nothing you have said is bad, but it is already covered and the covering officials will just have to make a decision. There really is no right or wrong here, but your judgment has to take over either way. I might look at a play and decide it is not serious and you may look at a play and decide it is serious. Whoever blows their whistle wins.

Peace

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

All I am saying it is already in the rule. And since these are rare, every situation is going to be judged differently just because of the nature of these situations. And if your concern is that a kid will fake, this is why the rule is in place to allow the opponent to continue their movement to the basket. Nothing you have said is bad, but it is already covered and the covering officials will just have to make a decision. There really is no right or wrong here, but your judgment has to take over either way. I might look at a play and decide it is not serious and you may look at a play and decide it is serious. Whoever blows their whistle wins.

+1

As stated, the rule cited gives us direction and it's then a judgment call.

And that's basically how we locally train our members to deal with situations like this.

[Mark Padgett]

In our local kids rec league, we have a coach's meeting prior to the season starting. One of the topics I cover with them is player safety. I tell them it's the number one priority and nothing else is even close. This is just a rec league for kids to have fun and if we think a kid is injured we stop play immediately. I tell the coaches we will do this even if there's three seconds left in the game, a team is down by one point and one of their players has an uncontested breakaway layup. I then tell them that if there's anyone here who disagrees with this philosophy, they shouldn't be coaching in this program. We instruct all our refs to officiate in this manner. In all my years here, never had a problem with this policy.

And yes - the kids' parents can come out on the floor.