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Originally Posted by dmotes
Very good. Thanks. Fast, authoritative, just the right degree of snarky impatience with my careless terminology. (exactly right: I confused player control foul with, well, everything. ) I'm curious about this bit on the pick, though. Is there any level of violence that, even if accidental or unintentional, is still a foul on the defender when defender meets pick? Or is the picking player "accepting" whatever befalls him? That's what I got from the post
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There can be significant contact without a foul. If the screen (fanspeak=pick) is legal, then there's no foul if the defender stops upon the contact. If the defender tries to push through the screen, then it's a foul on the defender.
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To restate q1 #1--now that I have the official go-ahead--maybe I'll be clearer. I know the officials have thought these things out. If ball is thrown the length of the court, how long does it take to pass from the top of the key to the basket? That's why q1 isn't irrelevant, I think; I need my time left to be enough so that the clock would have expired if the top-of-the-key player touched it, but also not so short that the guy at the hoop would have long enough to catch and shoot. Are there standard timings for some of these? (and of course I know that the officials call what they see, and anything is possible, and so on.) I'm a writer, and this is fiction, so I won't tell anyone that you speculated. If you understand the question.
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Whenver there's a timing issue (of this nature) at the end of the game, the officials are hung out to dry. There's no clearcut answer, and no good answer. there have been many, umm, friendly discussions on this board on this issue.