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Old Wed Jul 28, 2004, 07:23am
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Originally posted by Nevadaref
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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.

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."

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.

Disagree. The rules DO NOT allow this. You're making up your own interpretation again, instead of using the one that we already have available. Bad Nevada! Bad, bad Nevada! See casebook play 10.1.9, and note the language- "A technical foul is IMMEDIATELY charged to team B for failure to have ALL players return to the court at approximately the same time following a time-out or intermission. While it is true the ENTIRE team may be off-court while the procedure is being used, once a team responds, ALL players must enter the court at approximately the same time". "All" means "all", not four! To try and call it your way is "stoopid", to use one of your own terms. We'd just end up arguing whether "approximately" meant a 1, 2, 3 ,4, 5second etc. lag before a T could be called. That's why "all" was used. It's nice and un-ambiguous. "All" means 5, and "approximately" means now! If you count 'em, and they've only got 4 out there, then they're screwed( to use the rule book term) when the 5th player shows up. Of course, whether you wanna call this play strictly if one player does happen to come back on just a l'il bit later than his teammates is a whole 'nother matter, imo.

[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Jul 28th, 2004 at 08:30 AM]
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