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Originally posted by rainmaker
Jeff, I would word this a little differently, just because the word "should" can be so confusing. I'd say, "In order to call an illegal screen, you should wait for contact, and for displacement, as well." Just for the record, I wouldn't wait for displacement. Most contact by an illegal screener gets called, at least at the levels I work.
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I still would want displacement at the levels I work. Because if a screener comes over to make a screen and it is illegal, I feel that the "screeny" should make some attempt to get around the screen. If they give up the position and just back off, if there is contact or not, I am not calling a foul. And even in the rules is suggests that displacement still needs to be present on any screen. But that does not mean you have to have a lot of contact to do so either.
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Originally posted by rainmaker
It's a matter of helping the kids develop good habits. But I can see that you work several levels above me, and at that amount of skill, a certain amount of contact may not be worth calling. But I want Tiger to know how 7th grade boys are supposed to do it.
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I understand about making them have good habits, but we do not help them by calling things automatically that we will never call when they get a few years older. Understand 7th graders are only 2 years away from HS. I do feel that you cannot call a game exactly the same (type of contact I am referring to) as compared to a HS game. But you cannot fundamentally call something you would not call in other aspects of the game. A player that is screened needs to know that he or she should have to run thru the screen to some extent to get a foul called in their favor. And if they are displaced in any way, then we have a foul. But just a roll away move is not in itself a foul. Not unless they are pushed out of the way to some extent.
But then again, it is hard imagining the play being described without seeing it for myself.
Peace