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Originally posted by Nevadaref
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1. Is there a call that should be made when the fifth player leaves the floor during the dead ball or is this considered legal? If there is a call here, then that would happen prior to encountering the T situation for delaying returning to the floor. 10.3.3SitB, which you pointed out, seems to indicate that nothing should be called when the confused player leaves and remains on the bench. Since he didn't do it on purpose, I can see that. (Of course, we should also ask what if the player leaves on purpose and goes somewhere else besides the bench during the dead ball. We need an answer for that one too.) This leads us into question 2.
2. It used to be a T for leaving for an unauthorized reason, but now it seems that we have to wait until the player returns before we can talk about a technical foul. If that fifth player doesn't try to return, I don't know what the NFHS wants called, if anything. One could certainly contend that the player definitely has delayed returning. Should he be T'd while standing around off the court waiting? Must the official wait until he attempts to return to assess the T?
Does the NFHS consider it enough of a penalty that the player is temporarily out of the game and his team is short a person?
[/B][/QUOTE]1) Did the player leave the floor for an
unauthorized reason
during the course of play? If not, you can't call a violation, can you?
2) See Bob Jenkins reply. The rules haven't changed. The penalty for
part of the old rule has changed. That part of the rule isn't applicable to this situation anyway, as per #1 above.