by Eugene on Sat Dec 14, 2002 7:55 am
As far as the foul-out rules go...
After a player picks up his sixth foul, he is removed from the game...
If you have 8 players on the roster and 3 of them foul out, then you must run with the 5 that have not fouled out... with me so far?
When one of your remaining 5 picks up his sixth foul, because a team must have 5 players on the court at all times, the player who picked up his sixth stays on the court, however, every foul he picks up afterwards counts also as a technical... the other team shoots two and gets the ball back.
This is just a cautionary rule -- I've never heard of it happening in the NBA... the coaches usually have good enough rotations that the players don't foul out, and often, there isn't enough time to foul everyone out... but, if a team only dresses eight... it could happen.
As matter of fact, it did happen. In highschool girls basketball... this was long time ago, so before that rule came into effect. One team dressed only 8 players, and they all fouled out and kept fouling out. So the team had to forfeit when there was only one player left, and she couldn't inbound the ball. Ironically, the other team was so bad, that they'd not won a single game before that. Furthermore, until the team had to forfeit, they were still beating the other team...
I think that may have been the motivation for the foul-out rule.
Also, there's an instance of only four players playing on Hoosiers. One of his players wouldn't listen to him so Gene Hackman, playing Coach Dale, refused to put him on the floor, and he ran the four on the court.
There's enough rules preventing any team to play with less than five players, so the foul-out rule is really just a precaution...
All the best,
Eugene
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