[JRutledge]

Z,

"A player who is screened within his/her visual is expected to avoid contact by going around the screener. In case of screener and if the opponent is running rapidly, the contact may be severe. Such a case is to be ruled incidental contact provided the opponent stops or attempts to stop on and moves around the screen, and provided the screener is not displaced if he/she has the ball."

Now this is a direct quote from Rule 10-6-3 in the last paragraph.

And in the POE this past year, on Page 70 it says in B-1,

"A legal screener must be stationary prior to contact with hands and arems close to the body." When these two requirements are nto met and when there is sufficiant contact delivered by the screener to bump, slow or displace, it is a foul on the screener."

Now what that tells me, that just because there is contact does not mean it is a foul. But the contact must stop them from doing something they would have normally done. And if a player being screened just gives up because someone is in front of him (which I think is very common) a foul in my opinion should not be called.

Peace