[QUOTE=Jurassic Referee]
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Originally Posted by ronny mulkey
The criteria is whether the player being screened stops or attempts to stop upon feeling the contact. The initial contact may be quite severe because the player being screened didn't see the screener and thus was unable to stop or slow down before the contact occured.
Iow, it's what the player being screened does after the contact that determines whether it's a foul or incidental contact. If they continue trying to go through the screen after the contact, then it's a foul. If they stop and have to go around the screener, then the screener has done their job and it's incidental contact. That's always a judgment call.
Make any more sense now, Ron?
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JR,
You always make sense to me BUT I am hung up on the verbage that allows severe contact and displacement which makes these following plays hard to judge. Assume the screenee did not lower shoulder or push through:
1. Screener is knocked down and screenee is standing and stopped. They go around the screener.
2. Screener is knocked down and screenee falls down beside screener, gets up and goes around screener.
3. screener is knocked down, screenee goes down on top of screener, rolls clear, gets up and goes around screener.
4. screener is knocked down, screenee STUMBLES over screener and keeps going.
Mulk