"That's not fair!"

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Why did you stop play when A was in control?

Because B1 was on the floor, writhing around holding her knee and yelling "OW OW OW" and this was a young kids game.

In our local kids rec league, at our pre-season coaches meeting we specifically tell the coaches we will stop the game if a player gets hurt even if a kid on the other team is going in for a breakaway layup that would win the game. No one disagrees since the watchword of our league is "the safety of the kids comes first". It's just a game.

[just another ref]

You will not find this in any book, but even at the varsity level, I have seen a team B player down with an injury, team A going the other way with the ball, coach A sees the situation and says timeout, and the official stops play but doesn't charge A with the timeout.

Surely no one has a problem with this?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Because B1 was on the floor, writhing around holding her knee and yelling "OW OW OW" and this was a young kids game.

In our local kids rec league, at our pre-season coaches meeting we specifically tell the coaches we will stop the game if a player gets hurt even if a kid on the other team is going in for a breakaway layup that would win the game. No one disagrees since the watchword of our league is "the safety of the kids comes first". It's just a game.

Thanks. That's (generally) what I suspected.

It wasn't meant to be a "challenge" question.