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Originally posted by SeanFitzRef
Had a varsity girls scrimmage the other night, and a similar play happened. A1 dribbling down the sideline in front of B's bench just across halfcourt, B1 defending and running along side A1. I see A2 in my field of vision come running up from the baseline to set a screen on B1. She jumpstops at the top of the key extended and waits for B1, and as A1 dribbles past the screen B1 gets totally wiped out. B's bench jumps up screaming for an illegal screen, but everything was legal. B1 took two steps before contact, A2 was set w/out high elbows or leaning. Just a tooth-rattling screen set legally. I saw it coming and knew there was a possibility for injury, but can't stop the game to say "Hey, WATCH OUT!!!" I would forfeit my stripes for life!
Just ref the rules, can't ref the potential for injury on every play. Preventative officiating goes a long way towards cleaning this up, but you can't protect or prevent evry injury from occuring.
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Good point about contact. In our game the other night it was obvious that the coach had taught his defenders to "run through the screens" instead of the more correct way of moving over the screens etc, or switching.
Several times his girls got decked and the coach could not understand why we were letting them set so many illegal screens on his players.
Finally I simply told the coach, if your players want to run into the picks thats fine, but I'm not going to penalize the player that is setting a legal pick.
Now, later we had a couple of illegal screens that we did call and of course the coach let us know "about time you call that" - sigh!
Thanks
David