Only four players

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Right. But the coach wouldn't have been able to predict your thought process on this.

True.

I think from talking to him though, he is under the impression that ANY time a player enters the court without reporting, it is a technical.

He brought up a play that happened locally in the playoffs about two years ago. A team returned after a timeout with only four players. The officials put the ball in play and the throw-in was completed. Then the fifth player returns to the court. They called a technical because all players didn't return at the same time. At the time, they were reprimanded by the association (I don't know to what extent) for even starting play with only four players. The story got around the association and everyone assumed they had screwed up. Now that I think about it, it seems they were right though. What else are you supposed to do as an official when they will only put four players on the court?