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Originally Posted by Wellmer
This happened in a sub district game the other night and I heard this second hand and have not found it yet in the rule book. Here goes :
A team starts the game with 7 players. One fouls out leaving them with 6. As the game goes along, one of the players on this team gets into it with the coach and the coach tells him to go to the locker room, he's done for the night. During the 4th quarter, another player fouls out leaving this team with only 4 players on the floor. They would still have 5 except the coach told the disruptive player on his team to hit the high road to the locker room. Here's the question, does the coach have to put that player back in or can he legally play with 4? That player wasn't actually disqualifed from the game, only told to leave by his coach. The kicker is, this team actually ended up holding on for the win to advance to the next round.
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The player should be considered suspended from the team until we hear otherwise.
Playing with 4 is acceptable here.