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Originally posted by Hartsy
If they didn't have 5 inside the boundary lines when play began, they would play with what they had, or suffer the illegal sub T.
JH
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Hartsy,
I hope that you are kidding and know that this is not correct.
All that is said in the rules is: 10-1-9 "A team shall not: ...Fail to have all players return to the court at approximately the same time following a time-out or intermission."
This and 7-5-1 are the only applicable rules for this situation.
First, notice that there is no requirement to be on the inbounds side of the boundary line when the ball becomes live. Secondly, it says "approximately the same time." So if 4 players are inbounds when you make the ball live, and the fifth follows immediately thereafter, the rules allow this.
In fact, all five could wait until the opponents score and then enter the court together and it would be legal.
According to 7-5-1c, if the team stayed on the bench the whole time, they would not receive a technical foul until they first violated on the throw-in following the opponents goal, the opponents inbounded and scored again, and now they have another throw-in opportunity and they are continuing to delay.
Lastly, the idea of an illegal substitution has nothing to do with this play, since all of these five team members are still players during the time-out and do not need to enter the game as substitutes. 4-34 provides the definitions of players, substitutes, team members, and bench personnel.