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Old Wed Feb 02, 2022, 11:34am
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Originally Posted by Camron Rust View Post
Screener or defender, it doesn't really matter. Contact in the torso is contact in the torso regardless of any extended limb. Even though the screening rules are not as explicitly written in that regard, it is the same principle. They never intended to make a screen illegal due to an extended leg if there is no contact on that extended leg any more than it is with a defender doing the same.
We've stretched outside of the OP but this is good discussion.
The last few posts have got me thinking more about that part you mentioned there in bold.

If A1 is setting a screen with their legs well outside of their normal stance, and B1 makes 'legal' torso contact with A1...it shouldn't really matter where A1's legs are as they really don't have any impact on the contact made vs. if A1 was setting the screen with his legs inside shoulder width
I'm not trying to pick apart the rules/case book on what is/isn't a foul or what we've come to know as fouls...but it's just interesting to me.
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