Thu Mar 11, 2004, 02:26pm
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Quote:
Originally posted by Hawks Coach
rocky
Even if the screener takes the brunt of it, the person initiating the contact will get some slowing down due st4rictly to making contact, assisting them in coming to a stop. The defender sends somebody into the third row, you may have a call. They go to the floor, I am not convinced. You have to see it to call it. But as I read the rule, if a player comes in at full speed, makes hard contact, then comes to a stop in response to the contact, then continues on, no foul. If they slow down due to the contact but keep right on going, you have to call a foul.
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I would agree with all of this - just seemed like the thread was getting a little off-base and taking the tone of "the defender can kill the screener and it's incidental contact"...the screener does have the right to that spot on the floor, and sending them flying is probably not the best example of "coming to a stop"...
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