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Originally posted by rainmaker
What I've heard before is that players aren't allowed to leave the confines without supervision. This is apparently a liability issue. Coaches should be in on this too. If the player is leaving, and there's no supervision, you must exert some sort of authority, even if it's just to pass the buck to the coach. A T seems like the best way to do that. It might be smart to converse with the coach about it, but I wouldn't warn as deecee suggests. Just say, "Coach, #14 can't leave the area without supervision. Do you have an assistant or a school staff person that can go with her?" Say it quickly and urgently, then T before the kid gets out the door. This way the coach is the one on the hook, not you.
At least this is how I've been told to handle this. Maybe it's just a local thing.
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That is not correct. While we're not to send the kid out of the gym, the coach can send them to the locker room along for all we care (per the rules). The issue of supervision is a policy of the school or team, not a rule of the game.
The T for leaving the bench area is to keep a player from going to the baseline and heckling the other team's FT or for keeping a sub from going to the other team's bench during a timeout.