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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
The effect of the rule is not to prevent a coach from entering the court unless beckoned by an official, but if a coach enters the court whether beckoned by an official or not, the player must leave the game. In Julie's orginal post, her partner was incorrect when he interecepted the coach and told him he could not enter the court without being beckoned. I am going to speculate, and assume that Julie's partner was confusing the injury rule with the fighting rule and beckoning coaches onto the court to help stop a fight.
Charging a coach with a techncial foul for entering the court to attend to an injured player without beckoned by an official is definitely incorrect and cannot be defended by rule.
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A) We didn't charge him a technical.
B) We didn't know if the player was injured -- and, in fact, she wasn't.
C) We should have made her leave the game, since the coach had, in fact, come on to the court to help her. But we weren't thinking about it at that moment due to several rather emotional exchanged taking place at the same time.
D) We weren't trying to prevent him from getting to an injured player. We were trying to keep him from rushing onto the court for no apparent reason.