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Originally posted by Brad
If you are going to attempt to be a by-the-book official then, technically, you are also going to have to call a T on the other team for not having enough players on the court, right?
Of course not. That's stupid.
You have to use common sense. Your partner hands the ball to the free thrower, then the free throw(s) need to count.
I agree with the others that this is not a correctable error as defined in 2-10. It is also not the same as shooting during a time-out, since the official handed the ball to the shooter, making the ball live.
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Bob J has already shown where your argument is wrong.
And this is certainly the first time *I've* ever been
accused of being a by-the-book-official. But now you've
done it, you made me look up the damn rules. So here goes:
NF 3.1.1 tells us that a team MUST have 5 players
participating. As soon as you tell the coach his player has
5 fouls he's disqualified (4-14-2), leaving only 4. Which
means we must wait for the 5th player to come in. And
the coach has 30 seconds to name that player. Dead ball.
Can't score during a dead ball, I don't care what 2-10
says, it's as good as a time out. But there's even more
direct guidance under NCAA 4-17-5:
"A disqualified player shall be replaced within a
30 second time limit. A signal shall be sounded
both 15 seconds before the expiration of this
time limit and at the end of the time limit,
with the
latter signal indicating that play shall
resume."
Sorry folks, you can't score points before the game has
resumed. Like it or not, it's there in black & white.
It's a mess, but one of your own making and under the rules you have to reshoot the FTs, IMO. But of course you might
consider just leaving things as they stand
