[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by cubsfanllw

Can someone describe the situation mentioned here where there is "severe" contact on a screen but it is uncalled b/c incidental? secondly, i can't imagine letting it go without having one mad coach.

A player who is screened within the visual field is expected to avoid contact by going around the screener. In cases of screens outside the visual field, the opponent may make inadvertent contact with the screener and if the opponent is running rapidly, the contact may be severe. Such a case is to be ruled as incidental contact proved the opponent stops or attempts to stop on contact and moves around the screen, and provided the screener is not displaced if he has the ball.

ubsfanllw:

Assuming the the player setting the blind has met the requirments for setting a blind screen it means that the moving player being screened is to stop instantly upon making contact with the player setting the blind screen. If the player being screened goes through the screener the contact is a foul by the screened player.

MTD, Sr.


P.S. The Law of Conservation of Momentum governs in this play and I have yet to see a screened player who is running at top speed stop instantly upon coming into contact with the player who was setting the blind screen because the contact between the two players was not a completely (100%) elastic collision; in fact it is almost always a completely inelastic collision.