IAABO Mechanics ...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Same question about after a timeout. Often substitutes will report, and be beckoned during a timeout (before the fifteen second warning horn), but do they always? I'm not so sure.

If, after the fifteen second warning horn sounds, a substitute simply comes out of the team huddle and walks directly out onto the court, I'm probably not noticing if he fails to report and be beckoned. I don't keep track of who goes into a timeout huddle and who comes out of a timeout huddle.

And I doubt that I would get any help from most, if not all, scorers.

On the other hand, if after the fifteen second warning horn sounds, a substitute reports to the table to be beckoned, I will definitely notice that he has reported too late, he'll have to wait until the next opportunity to substitute, and the coach will have to put "back in" off the bench the player that actually played before the timeout.

Something seems inherently unfair about that.

But to paraphrase Nevadarwef, "Not my job", so I won't lose any sleep over it.