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Originally posted by PGCougar
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Originally posted by JRutledge
How you set the screen is not ever an issue. The point is that any player can set a screen from any direction within limits.
Peace
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So... I can dribble behind a wedge of teammates who just happen to be running down the lane looking to get set up offensively? 
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Why not? It's perfectly legal until contact is made. And even then, you have to judge any ensuing contact using guarding and screening principles. Once
any player on the floor has established a straight-line path, no matter what direction that path is taking, then no opponent can crowd that player out of their path from the side. An opponent has to get in front of the player and establish an initial guarding position. If you jump in front of a moving player trying to establish your guarding position, then you gotta allow a maximum of two steps for that player to stop or go around you.
Iow, if you want to break up that wedge, you'd better get some defenders out in
front of them. If you try to move them out of their established path from the side, the foul is gonna be on you. That's the point that was being made above, I think.