alex -That's the way they designed it. They have this belief that somehow it will slow down games excessively even though there is already a shot clock to prevent that. After all, if people are getting "timed out" and forfeiting games because of it they will voluntarily quit trying to enter things while playing multi-player games.
Whoever made the design and programming decisions on this item did an incredibly poor job of it. It has a bunch of other serious flaws, too.