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[bob jenkins]

Originally posted by Brian Watson
I would consider a player not in the book to be in violation of 10-3-3 "Illegal Number". Maybe I am taking it to literal, but if it is not in the book, is it not illegal? (I think I listed 10-3-1 by mistake in an earlier post)

Or do we consider 6-9 and 0/00 together the only definition of illegal number?

I think you're misreading (or at least reading it differently than I) the word "illegal". 3-4-3 "The following numbers are legal: ..." The implication being that it's numbers not listed that are illegal.

I'd treat 0 and 00 as duplicate (not illegal) numbers (that's why the rule was changed -- because the electronic scoreboards / stat books being used couldn't differentiate between them). The book doesn't say it, but I'd treat 1 and 01 the same way.

Gary --

The phrase is "one foul per team" not "one foul per incident (regardless of the number of infractions)". It means just that -- one per team (per game).

If they meant it the other way, they would have worded it like they did the penalty for bench personnel entering the court during a fight (10-4-4). Here, it's one indirect per occurence -- if there are two fights, it's two indirects.