Mon Sep 20, 2004, 11:29am
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In Memoriam
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Houghton, U.P., Michigan
Posts: 9,953
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Re: Re: Re: Player was standing funny?
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by mick
what happens to a player's right to a place on the floor?
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A player doesn't have a right to a spot on the floor simply because a part of his body is over that spot. If he did, then extending elbows, knees, etc would be legal screening tactics. A player is entitled to the space he takes up while in a normal stance. I've always interpreted "normal" to mean "upright" (or nearly so). Otherwise, why couldn't you stand on one foot and stick all your other limbs out to the side? That'd be quite a screen!
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Agree with Chuck. You certainly have the right to stand on the court- in a basketball way. Getting down into a 2-point football stance sure isn't a "normal position", as the rule states, on the basketball court. Would you let a player set a screen by getting down into a 3 or 4-point football stance too? And call a foul on the defender if he ran into the screener's stationary back leg? Would you let a player screen by laying on the court?
Imo, the screener is getting an unfair advantage in this play by extending his butt and head/shoulders into a space that is normally not taken up by the screener setting any type of a normal basketball screen. Iow, if contact occurs, it may be because he's illegally impeded the progress of his opponent by bending his body into other than a normal postion- just like R10-1-6 says. I think that that's the purpose and intent of that rule.
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Ballerinas.
Offensive linemen.
Bent over, hands on knees.
Gymnastics anyone? 
mick
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