The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.