Free Throw Shooter

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Originally Posted by Camron Rust

The rule you claim is being waived is not being used because it was never intended for such a situation. So it is not actually being waived but being used only for intended purposes. As stated by someone else (MTD?) much earlier in this thread, the entire purpose of this rule (as was explicitly stated when it was instituted) was to prevent coaches from abusing the substitution opportunities by sending players in/out resulting in the delaying of the game. It was never meant to make a team play with 4.

But the NFHS says that such a team member (one who has just subbed out and the clock has not yet run) can't come back in and attempt technical foul FTs, so clearly the intent and purpose of the substitution rule was to prevent a team member from doing that.
And if a team is playing with only five and one of them has an asthma attack or suffers and injury and the coach comes onto the floor the NFHS says that the team must play down a man for a short period of time (or take a TO) because the intent and purpose of the rule was definitely to make a team play with 4 in that case, but I guess not in others.

It's now so very clear when we are supposed to ignore the no-time-off-the-clock requirement or a mandatory exit for a player and when we are not. Great job NFHS.