FIBA Officals

[Jay R]

For those few of you who officiate FIBA rules, I have a question regarding rule changes.

Two rules seem contradictory.

Rule 5.3 states that if an injured player cannot continue to play immediately, or, if he receives treatment, he must be substituted or the team must continue with fewer than five players

Rule 5.6 states that if an injured player or any player who is bleeding or has open wound recovers during a charged time-out taken by either team in the same stop-clock period, that player may continue to play.

Those two rules seem contradictory. Rule 5.3 used to be that a coach could take a TO to keep his player in the game, now he can't. Yet, Rule 5.6 says that if either team takes a TO, that player may continue if he has recovers.

What gives?