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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Ok, I'd blow the whistle and charge a team technical foul. It doesn't matter if the exiting player is the first one that you count or that last one, the reasonable call here is a T.
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Well put. I agree. If you see the player leave the court, that means the player was seen while on, or partially on, the court, if there are five teammates still on the court, do the math, five plus the one who exited is six. Technical foul. In my opinion, just because the whistle was blown while there were only five players on the court, I don't think that it's too late to call the foul, as long as the official was 100% sure that the team was playing with six immediately before the whistle. As in almost all calls, there is going to be some type of delay between the foul, or violation, and the resultant whistle. Just because, at the same time that you're thinking about putting some air into the whistle, there are only five players still left within the boundaries of the playing court, is not, in my opinion, a reason to ignore this technical foul.