End of GSW/Blazers game - Warriors with no players left.

[Warspite]

The refs interpreted the rule to be that a player could not be declared injured if he dressed for the game but had not appeared in the game. So they made Nellie insert his injured players, then foul to stop play, then declare them injured, before they would let him put George back in and take the technical foul that you take when a player fouls out and you have no replacements who have not already been disqualified.

So we had to do this stupid dance where we shuffled Hunter in, then Turiaf, then Morrow, taking each one out at the next dead ball. Nellie was very upset that the refs made him do this.

I think the refs were actually correct, but the rule should probably be revisited to allow a coach to declare any player injured and ineligible, which should then mean that the player cannot enter the game again.

Or you could get rid of the 8 dressed players to start the game rule, and then coaches wouldn't be forced to dress hurt players if the team was shorthanded.

I honestly thought the rule was they had to play with 4 players in that situation. I know my team did it once and we played 4 on 5 untill the other coach gratiously pulled a player and we went 4on4.

Actualy the only rule change is to make the owners sign enough 10 day contracts to make sure they have 8 guys healthy. If your not able to play you must be in street clothes and you have to sign some D leaguers to get to 8 guys.

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I lived with assumptions that team can play in 4 men if there is none other due to fouled out ones. It surely happened somewhere already. Strange ruling that NBA allows fouled player to play the game. it sounds like april fools.

[carrottop12]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boId6R7tx1Y

[Joel Embust]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boId6R7tx1Y

[RapsCA]

Lol did Pendergraph just get blocked by an injured Hunter on one leg?

[Canada_7]

Wow I definitely needed video for that one. Was just completely confused by word descriptions.

[Rendezvous]

Vid please.

[Joel Embust]

Vid please.

Four posts above yours, Stevie Wonder.

[20MexicanosIn1Van]

What happens if everyone is injured and you only have 4 players? I know the rule says you HAVE to have 5 players on the court.

[Sofia]

Vid please.

Four posts above yours, Stevie Wonder.

[Copperhead]

Heard the Blazers announcers were pretty garbo the whole game just dogging the Warriors.

If anything we can feel vindicated in this win just to shut them up. But yea, Curry was a beast tonight. Was running on empty in the end there, but still good enough to heat up at the right time.

It was so comfortable being in that 3rd spot. I'm still lightweight reeling from the marvelous tank job successfully completed by the Kings. They seriously are awful though. Tied for 4th, 34% chance for top 3.

Could be worse. We could be Toronto.

I didn't see/hear the game but that wouldn't surprise me. They quite often rag on opposing teams/players. Mike Rice's old a** needs to be put out to pasture.

[bjax24]

Steph Curry went LeKobe BryJames on the portlands 3rd stringers.

Hey, that's my copyrighted name. That'll be 5 bucks.

[rpa]

I think the refs were actually correct, but the rule should probably be revisited to allow a coach to declare any player injured and ineligible, which should then mean that the player cannot enter the game again.

I think it'd be hard for coaches to not take advantage of this, especially in must-win games. Consider years ago when Shaq was still a beast. The only way you could hope to stop him was to get him in foul trouble. But if Phil could simply say, at any time, "oh, all these bench guys are injured" that would make for a huge competitive disadvantage.