What dunks?

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by just another ref

Fifteen minutes prior to the game two team members of team A dunk with both the coach and official as witnesses. When coach submits his squad list, he deliberately omits the names of the violators. Official assesses a technical foul for each act of dunking as team fouls and charges the coach with two indirect technical fouls. This ruling is correct.

I think something may have gotten lost here. I think the point of this question was not the definition of a team member, but whether the coach was allowed to escape a penalty by a technicality.

No, that's exactly the point I addressed (maybe you should take me off your ignore list, you're missing a lot of good stuff ) A technicality does not change the intent.

Let's add some information to the original situation. Assume that everybody knows that these guys are team members. This is their second game of the day. You saw both of them play in the first game. When the dunks occur, the coach yells, "What's wrong with you two?? Get off this court and get out of my sight!" He then grabs his own scorebook and is seen using an eraser. He may even tell the official, "Those guys know better than that. Just for that, I'm leaving them off my list of players for this game."

Would this change anyone's ruling?

No T's from me in this case. It's clear, unless the coach is a GREAT actor and really quick on his feet that those kids didn't belong on the court to begin with. I would call this in to the assigner later just in case.