Resumption of Play Fiasco

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Curious for ideas as to how this could have been prevented, or what other's may have done differently...

Girl's varsity team has been repeatedly slow in leaving the huddle, in spite of "encouragement" by all three of us to be ready on the second horn. I personally spoke to one of the assistant's and asked him to help us get the team on the floor so play could begin on the second horn, but it didn't help.

At the end of a third quarter time out, I said into the huddle, "let's go...we will start without you". This team is the defensive team and doesn't respond, so I motion across the floor to my partner administering the throw in to put the ball in play. After the opposing team makes the inbound pass, they realize what is going on and finally respond...with six players!

There was some discussion then about how the technical foul should be charged. Seemed pretty simple to me...10.1.6 says it is a team technical foul to have six players participating simulataneously. One of my partners, while not disagreeing with that also argued that since there 5 players in the game legally prior to the time-out, the technical should be charged to the substitue that didn't report. We went with the team technical because a)10.1.6 is very specific and b) because I had very little confidence the table could tell us which one was not supposed to be in the game.