Out of formation?

[FMadera]

Originally Posted by tibear

It was a junior varsity game.

Its been a while since I played the game and been a while since the last formal training session but I thought that when a team has an "illegal alignment" as you call it the officials have no responsibility to put the offending team into proper alignment.

i.e. Only if the offending team asks to see the lineup card does the U2 then go over the positions with the team. Otherwise the call is made and it is up to the players to know where they are suppose to be on the court. I remember playing and being called three straight points for not being in the proper positions, until we finally asked and it was confirmed that U2 was mistaken and we were correct the whole time.

If you're going to call an illegal alignment, you really should identify exactly *who* was illegally aligned. I'm not saying you should necessarily do a complete lineup check as well, but whenever I call an illegal alignment, I point out the two players involved (setter needs to be behind left side, for example).

Now, if they choose not to fix it, you would have to call it again. But that (hopefully) wouldn't happen if you identify the illegal alignment from the start.