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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
There are no penalties listed anywhere for the scorer failing to follow the rules that you cited. Your rules citations are completely irrelevant. And fer sure there's nothing written anywhere in the rules that would penalize a team twice for committing one supposed rules infraction. Au contraire, the rules committee very specifically stated their intent and purpose when implementing this rule that "This rule change reduces the penalty from one technical foul to each starter and substitute to a maximum of one technical foul assessed directly to the head coach."
What you are advocating is that officials should fail to follow the rules as written, and instead follow what you personally happen to think is "fair". That's just wrong.
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Obviously, I disagree with you. You didn't seem to RTFQ very carefully.
There are two issues here.
1. a team member who participates is not listed on team roster supplied to the scorer prior to the game.
2. a team member wears an illegal uniform while participating
These two infractions have nothing to do with each other. There is no way that the rules call for only one technical foul for both infractions.
Furthermore, what the heck are you talking about in terms of penalizing the scorer?
I never advocated such. The scorer is supposed to be a neutral member of the officiating crew. Occasionally these people screw up and fail to do their job properly, but that doesn't mean that a team cannot be penalized later when the infraction is discovered. That is only true for situations when the penalty part of the rule states "while being violated."
I love how you write that my citations are completely irrelevant, yet then accuse me of advocating that officials fail to follow the rules as written.
I'm clearly advocating that officials enforce the rules which I cited as written.