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Maybe i did not emphasize the positioning of the player with ball adequately. He was in no position to see the defender of the teammate and the so-called "screen" was not a deliberate act to free up a teammate but rather a repositioning to better get off his own shot. The secondary defender collided with the high post just after the post player had pivoted away from the secondary defender (whom he couldnt see). If a player with ball in a high post position can be made to be a screener simply because a teammate passes in the vicinity, that means that the player with the ball and already closely defended is obligated to look all around him to make sure that no teammates might curl around him and if they do, he MUST hold both feet, cannot extend any part of his body or make any move at all while a second defender approaches who at any time may decide to double team him. Heaven forbid the post player does not have perfect balance at the time one of his teammates curls around the backside for according to the rules as it has been interpreted here, he cannot pivot nor do anything else but to just sit there and wait for the double team to come and steal the ball from him.
I thereby feel that a screen, especially one by a player with the ball, should at least have to be a deliberate act which it was not in that circumstance and that would leave the call somewhat up to the judgement of the official.
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