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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
But the NFHS says that such a team member (one who has just subbed out and the clock has not yet run) can't come back in and attempt technical foul FTs, so clearly the intent and purpose of the substitution rule was to prevent a team member from doing that. 
And if a team is playing with only five and one of them has an asthma attack or suffers and injury and the coach comes onto the floor the NFHS says that the team must play down a man for a short period of time (or take a TO) because the intent and purpose of the rule was definitely to make a team play with 4 in that case, but I guess not in others. 
It's now so very clear when we are supposed to ignore the no-time-off-the-clock requirement or a mandatory exit for a player and when we are not. Great job NFHS.  |
You're still missing the entire point. Let's try this again....
A team is only forced to play with 4 when there is no alternative (not necessarily a desireable alternative however). If there is a 5th player that can play (not injured and not DQ'd), they're in.
As for the mandatory exit rule....the case of the asthma attack situation...the way to stay in the game is through a timeout....an injured player (coach beckoned) can reamin only if a timeout is taken. That point is directly to the purpose of the rule....a team can't get an effectively free timeout. The team has the choice to not take a timeout and play with 4 or take a timeout and play with 5. However, this is really irrelavant to the question at hand.