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Old Fri May 18, 2001, 09:03pm
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Rockyroad has a good point regarding attempt to stop. Although you may flatten screener, if you never attempt to stop even after knocking the screener down, that should be a foul. If there is no foul and the defender can continue, defense gained advantage by running through the screener. That's why I said you have to see it. If the contact is hard and bodies go both ways (so defender is stopped by force of contact), it is incidental contact in my book. That frequently happens when a player doesn't see a screen. It is quite possible that there may is no way for a player to attempt to stop immediately on contact if the player is moving fast. But if that player never hesitates after plowing the screener, it's a foul.
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