Playing with 4

[iubirdman]

It was def not a case of them doing this all the time to try and gain an advantage, and I am pretty good friends with the other teams coaches, just wondering what the rule was.

Not sure what the convo was with the officials and the coach, but the official told us "they are choosing to play with 4 the rest of the half". It was the word choosing that did not seem to fit, if the explanation was they have 2 hurt right now and only have 4 that can play that is a lot different to me than they are choosing to play with 4.

I guess we will see a bunch of answers unless we actually know what an available player means. We have always taken it to mean a healthy player who has not fouled out and has quarters available to play and is on the bench as kids that are available