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Originally posted by Troward
A1 attempts a shot that misses and rebounds off the floor inbounds and is heading out of bounds slow and high. A2 on the baseline is close enough to the ball to make a potential saving play. B1 jumps in front of A2 to cut him off from the ball.Both players are moving and there is a slight collision, but A1 is still able to try to side step arround B2 to make a play on the ball. However B2 slides with A2 (like he is boxing him out) preventing him from getting to the ball to try to make a save. I NO called the scenario. Team A coach is all over me for an illegal screen which planted the seed of doubt that there might be something illegal in this play. Any opinions?
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I think that B1 changed into B2 in your description...
I'd have to see it to decide if I were going to make a call. For example, did A1 get a shoulder around B2 before he/she slid over to "box out"? If so, B2 would bear the responsibility for the contact. Or did B2 get to the spot first, before A1 made the move to try to get around him/her? In that case, the responsibility belongs to A1.
Once you decide who is responsible for the contact, then you have to decide whether there is an advantage/disadvantage caused by the contact. It seems clear to me that this is much more likely if it is B2 who is responsible for the contact.
As a follow-up to this, I have always wondered what rule allows a player to move back and forth while boxing out an opponent. Why isn't this considered to be a moving screen?