What's your call - player entering without being beckoned?

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Had a scorer try to tell me once that I needed to call a T on a player whom I had beckoned in; because he hadn't "reported" to the table.
"I told him to come in."
"You need to make him report to me first."

It was early in my officiating career, so I just walked away. Now, I would make sure the scorer knew, in no uncertain terms, what the rule says.

Doesn't the rule say, "A substitute who desires to enter shall report to the scorer, giving his/her number"?