6 Players...Whose Responsibility Is It?

[Jurassic Referee]

My, oh my.....more paralysis by analysis.

1) It is the head coach's responsibility to ensure that he has the proper number of players on the court. It is NOT the responsibility of the officials and it NEVER has been the responsibility of the officials.
2) Yes, we as officials try to ensure that the proper number of players are on the court. However, sometimes sh!t happens. It happened in an NBE game t'other week and all three officials missed it. If it does happen, just damn-well deal with it instead of going through these stoopid, non-sensical blame games. We've got very explicit rules in place to deal with these situations. When in doubt, it's not a bad idea to try using those rules.

Lah me.....

[IREFU2]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

My, oh my.....more paralysis by analysis.

1) It is the head coach's responsibility to ensure that he has the proper number of players on the court. It is NOT the responsibility of the officials and it NEVER has been the responsibility of the officials.
2) Yes, we as officials try to ensure that the proper number of players are on the court. However, sometimes sh!t happens. It happened in an NBE game t'other week and all three officials missed it. If it does happen, just damn-well deal with it instead of going through these stoopid, non-sensical blame games. We've got very explicit rules in place to deal with these situations. When in doubt, it's not a bad idea to try using those rules.

Lah me.....

I agree here, its the coaches job to do this. We do it as part as of our game management.