Excessive Swinging, No Contact, Illegal ...
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Originally Posted by bucky
... my focus was on this situation (an illegal position) being one that carried no written penalty. I even went so far as to ask if anyone could think of others...repeatedly. No one responded to that but yet, they kept going on about the illegal screen concern.
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This was as close as I could get to a similar situation.
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Originally Posted by BillyMac
But with no contact, it's not a foul, and I doubt that it will ever be a violation (like excessive swinging of elbows with no contact).
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And I did try to understand bucky's concerns, offering an olive branch, so to speak.
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Originally Posted by BillyMac
An offensive player setting a screen in an illegal position (extra wise stance, extended knees, extended elbows, moving) is gaining an advantage when a defensive player is forced, avoiding contact, to go the "long way" around such an illegal position screen.
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Last edited by BillyMac; Sun Jun 30, 2024 at 02:57pm.
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