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If the coach says they're unavailable, they're unavailable. Play with 4. It doesn't matter it is an injury or disciplinary. We don't ask why nor do we need to know. The coach might just decide to send the kid to the locker room to avoid having to play them and we don't want to put them in that bind (we can not send the player to the locker room but that doesn't stop the coach from doing so).
For all you know, a bench player, in any other game that appears to be available, could be serving a state imposed suspension. Do you think that player should be forced to play? No.
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