Five on the court, one is injured

[La Rikardo]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

It most certainly does NOT contradict the rules. In both the situation in the OP and the CB Play there are two applicable rules that are in direct opposition to each other. One rule has to supercede the other. The rules require a team to have five players on the court if it has five players who are eligible to play.

3-1-1 Note: "A team must begin the game with five players, but if it has no substitutes to replace disqualified or injured players, it must continue with fewer than five."

Perhaps 3-1-1 Note legitimizes the case play ruling since in that situation the team did have a substitute available to replace the injured player (even though that substitute wasn't eligible, but that doesn't appear to be a requirement in this particular situation), but at the same time, it also more or less confirms that in OP's situation, if not for the time-out, Team V would have to play with four.