Coach at start of game

[Hawks Coach]

Chuck
Your analogy on standing at the beginning of the game does not apply - neither team gets to do it. As for why you have this rule, you have not given any reason. When the rules were first changed, there was no box, no standing. Then they were modified to allow one person to stand. It simplifies a lot of things to limit who can have discourse with officials, who can be up yelling at the court from the bench, etc. Nowhere can I ever infer from the way this rule developed that it was intended to prevent an assistant from temporarily staning in for a head coach under extenuating circumstances.

I understand the travel rule, why we have it, why we enforce it. I understand why you don't want fouls and why you call them. I understand the reason for a double dribble rule, a technical foul rule, a limit on the number of fouls, etc. I can explain their existence without simply saying "that's how the book reads" - the rules themselves make sense even if they weren't written down.

I cannot understand why you choose to so literally interpret a rule like this in such a situation as was outlined in this thread. It only punishes the team whose coach chose to attend a wedding - not the run of the mill experience. You can only point to the book and say that's how you read it, that's how you call it. You cannot give me an explanation as to why this makes sense.