[Raymond]

Originally Posted by letemplay

Maybe, like a discussion topic a few weeks back, this player is no longer available, as in he may be injured, or has fouled out. You can't force him to play, you can't let the team begin the next quarter with only four players (if others are available) I say you let the next guy in even if he was late to the table. No sense making a problem for others to clean up later or even hurting the kid down the road. If in this particular state this practice is recognized, (I'm assuming the extra quarters are coming from JV action seen) then a little leniency is in order here and I sure hope the opposing coach isn't going to put up much objection.

I say the coach needs to take a time-out to make the substitution legal and in the future do HIS job better instead of putting the onus on the officials to clean up his mistake.