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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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If they pivot and roll before the contact, it's usually an illegal screen. Whether it gets called or not is another story. [/B]
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How can it be illegal if there is no contact?
What are we thinking "using their backside" means? If it means the screener pivots then moves out the defender with his backside, then we have a foul. If it means the screener pivots then holds his position, I don't see how this can be a foul.
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Jurrasic is assuming that 7th grade boys aren't going to wait for contact before they roll. They're just going to go through the motions regardless of what else happens. That's a pretty safe assumption, I think, and applies to 7th grade girls, too, I should add. In fact, without good coaching, most players are going to fall into this category. What he's saying is that it's illegal to run into position and then keep moving in an attempt to screen their player, whether that continued movement is more steps or a roll move. The screen must wait in position until contact, and can then roll as the screen-ee tries to get around him. If the screen-ee backs off and never makes contact, the screener can do whatever he or she jolly well feels like, and shouldn't be called.
I'd like to add a tangential editorial on the subject of the player(B1) the screen-ee is guarding, most often the dribbler. If B1 doesn't move fairly near the screen, so that the screen-ee has no choice but to confront the screener, that's when it's most likely there will be a moving screen. What I see a lot of in Middle School girls, is B1, whether it's a dribbler or the star shooter headed for her sweet spot to receive the ball, running through the play as it's designed. She's got a guard right on her, in legal guarding position. The screener gets into position and waits patiently. B1 swings around the screen, maybe a little wide, or perhpas the screener isn't quite on the X on the floor, and the defender is just running right through a nice ilttle hole in the offense. Now the screener leans, or steps in, or even reaches across to try and stop the defender. The foul is very easy to call.
The problem is that the screener thinks it's her job to stop the defender, but that's not correct. It's her job to give the playmaker an opportunity to lose the defender. If the playmaker doesn't rub shoulders with the screener, the defender can slip right between and there's no problem. THE BURDEN IS ON THE PLAYMAKER. I think a lot od coaches don't realize what the problem is, and they don't know who to talk to. Screens won't need to move, if the playmaker will do her part to run the play correctly.
[Edited by rainmaker on Apr 2nd, 2004 at 08:50 AM]