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Old Sun Jan 25, 2015, 07:24pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by BigCat View Post
Tell me where you get this from. I've pointed out that the screening rule specifically says a player has to have a STANCE and stay inside the vertical plane. Legal Guarding says vertical plane. A player gets a spot on the floor. Lying down takes up multiple spots.
His body doesn't get any bigger. Go ahead and try to play defense on the floor...pretty hard to block a pass or shot from there.
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Originally Posted by BigCat View Post
A player in your game can lay down to set a screen. defense now has to avoid a six foot space instead of another player vertical in his plane. double or triple screen with only one player....
If a player does it on purpose, there are other case plays to deal with that and it isn't going to be a common foul.
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