[Pantherdreams]

We've got a local team who likes to run and gun so any offensive stuff in the 1/2 court tends to be of the hot potatoe variety trying to get a quick shot. In these situations they will constanly run what their coach calls "blur" action. It is basically a foot ball like crossing pattern with two players on diagonal routes which at some point leads too: two offensive players bumping or two defensive players bumping or 1 of the defensive players going under in order to create space for the other to move through. As soon as one defender changes his run or is caught up this player immediately dives at the ball while the other continues on their line to exit.

Ivariably you see recovering players needing to run around their own teammate or the offensive cutter to recover and occaisionally run into one or both of these people in the attempt. I was of the opinion when I first started wathcing it that their had to be an illegal screen/block/ something in there that wasn't right.

9 times out of ten though it is the potential contact or contact that is simply incidental that seems worse then it is because of poor decision making or communication by the defense leading to the situation. Not anythign illegal occuuring. In the time where the are holding or pushing I'm calling an offensive foul, but if their is nothing more then a regular player recovering through a mess then normal its play on. When I have someone complain I'll often tell them that their needs to be contact impeding them to make a call not just them caught standing there going "thats illegal".