Where's APG at?

[Welpe]

Did a little digging in the casebook and came up with this:

10.3.2 SITUATION B:

After a lengthy substitution process involving multiple substitutions for both Team A and Team B, A5 goes to the bench and remains there, mistakenly believing he/she has been replaced. The ball is put in play even though Team A has only four players on the court. Team A is bringing the ball into A's frontcourt when the coach of Team A realizes they have only four players. The coach yells for A5 to return and he/she sprints directly onto the court and catches up with the play.

RULING: No technical foul is charged to A5. A5's return to the court was not deceitful, nor did it provide A5 an unfair positioning advantage on the court.


I'm not sure if I'm reading too much into the ruling but it seems that if there was some advantage gained by the player coming back onto the court, we could potentially assess a technical foul. Is that the case and if so, could we apply it here? The player did seem to gain an advantage by materializing right next to an unsuspecting ball handler.