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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
Let's forget that B1 originally had a LGP against A1 and address the situation of A1 dribbling is a straight line and B1 is running beside A1 in a straight line that is parallel to A1's line and with every step that A1 and B1 take they are legally occupying a new spot on the Court.
We should know that like The Theory of Special Relativity is a special application of The Theory of General Relativity, the Guarding Rule is a special application of the Screening Rule (Thanks to Mark, Jr., for that insight.).
Therefore, if B1 is not Guarding A1, what is B1 doing with respect to A1? B1 is in effect setting legal Moving Screen against A1. While B1 cannot make contact with A1 by moving laterally into A1's line of movement, neither can A1 make contact with B1 by moving into B1's line of movement.
Therefore, when A1 moved laterally from his line into B1's line and made contact with B1, A1 has committed a Pushing Foul which is a PCF.
MTD, Sr.
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That is not true. The only legal moving screen is one where B1 is moving in the same PATH and DIRECTION. In your example, they're moving in the same direction but not the same path. They are on parallel paths.
B1, in that play, doesn't not have a right to a path. The defense never has a right to a path. The defense is required to legally get into A1's path, face them, and get 2 feet down, then move while staying in A1's path...running side by side is none of that. If A1 merely deviates path, perhaps running down the court on nearer the sideline and turns toward the basket, absent an unnatural movement, B1 will have committed a blocking foul.