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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
I'm not asking about "authorized reasons", I'm asking about the time frames teams are allowed to leave the bench area.
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You have to ask about "authorized reasons", there's no way around it, because that's the only rule reference, that I can find, that allows teams to leave the bench area.
So the question, essentially, becomes, what are these authorized reasons, and I cannot find any rule reference to a single authorized reason, not even the halftime intermission. But we let them leave anyway. Why?
The scene opens in a small, rural, high school gymnasium, poorly lighted, half filled with spectators. The halftime buzzer sounds. Coach, wearing a plaid sports jacket, holding a rolled up game program: "Hey Mr. BillyMac. Does my team have your permission to leave the bench area and go to the locker room for our halftime intermission meeting?" BillyMac: "Just let me look through my handy, pocket sized, rulebook coach. I don't see a list of authorized reasons, nor do I see such a list in my handy, pocket sized, casebook, so, no, you can't leave".
Yeah? Like that's really going to happen, because if it did, I would never work another game for the rest of my life.
Now let's twist the situation around for one of the other two intermissions. Now it becomes a more realistic scene, maybe with an Academy Award winning performance by BillyMac. I could just see it now: "I'd like to thank all the little people, like the point guards, who made this possible".