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Originally posted by BktBallRef
Remember these 3 things:
1- All screens must be short of contact.
2- Time and distance are always relevant. If the screen is from behind, allow the defender one step without contact. When the defender is moving, you may need to allow up to two steps.
3- The screener must be stationary, unless both are moving in the same direction.If the screener steps into the defender or extends his arms, hip or legs into him, you have a foul.
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One more thing I think it's important to keep in mind. No screen is illegal until there's contact. It's not quite true that anyone can do anything, but very nearly. If the screen-ee dodges and avoids contact, then the screen wasn't illegal, no matter if it was moving or leaning or doing jumping jacks.
The corollary is that even the most incidental contact is illegal if it's a screener that moves into a screen-ee. Call a ticky-tack screen or two, off ball, in the first quarter, and you won't have any thing to worry about the rest of the game.