Technical question

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JV game. I'm R.

The scorekeeper tells me before the game that when they were on the visiting team's home court, that the coach would send players in after timeouts and quarters without checking in at the table. I told her to let us know if it happened and we would take care of it. I talked to my partners and we agreed to ask both coaches at the meeting to be sure to have their players report to the table.

At the start of the second quarter, I'm getting ready to put the ball into play when the table buzzes. There are two players from the visiting team on the floor who have not checked in. We tell the coach the starters need to return and those two must now wait for the first dead ball to enter the game. He was careful to have his players check in from then on.

Besides being against the rules, I think that this behavior is just plain rude to the scorekeeper. But I found it interesting at halftime, talking it over, the varsity guy watching said he would have handled it the same way we did. By rule this is a technical. I can see giving a warning as we did in a JV game but varsity? At what point does one handle it differently? At state?

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