tref wroteCool, just wanted make sure you understood why one infraction is direct while the other is indirect.
We had a situation hinging on the bench personnel rule come up in our association late last year.
Team A had lost something like 39 straight games and it was the last game of what was for them a very long season. They were playing their big rivals from the next town, it was senior night and it was a tightly contested and terribly played basketball game.
Half way through the 4th quarter team B started to pull away and the game starts to get a bit out of hand as team A decides if they canāt compete and win they are going to beat the other team up instead. With about 3 min left in the fourth team Aās āassistant coachā gets wacked for protesting a call in which A1 fouled out. After being replaced, and while free throws are being administered the kid formerly known as A1 takes off his jersey and tosses it over his head backwards into the crowd. I donāt think he was trying to be a jackass or anything, but regardless we are shooting two more and thatās the second bench T.
30 seconds later A2 commits his fifth foul three feet from his teamās bench. He knows itās his 5th and before the foul has been reported to the bench, or anyone has been officially notified that heās disqualified, he steps off the court sits down at the end of the bench and drops an F bomb.
Now the crew knows itās the third T, but doesnāt know the rule on when the player becomes ābench personnelā. They discuss it and the best they can come up with is they āthinkā heās still an active player because the foul had yet to be reported and the HC had not been notified by the officials that the player was disqualified, but they āknewā that they didnāt want the HC to go because they were concerned the assistant coach wouldnāt be able to control his players and they still had 2+ min. to play.
In the interest of game management they decide not to make it a bench T and the head coach rewards them by substituting 5 JV scrubs to play the last 2:30 seconds.
So applying what Iāve learned in this thread it looks like they made the right ācallā even if they werenāt sure of the rule or reasoning. Secondarily how would the bench record that in the book. Would A2 have six PFās listed?