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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
I think that screening rules apply.
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Maybe they do:
4-40 ART. 1 A screen is legal action by a player who, without causing contact,
delays or prevents an opponent from reaching a desired position.
ART. 2 To establish a legal screening position:
a. The screener may face any direction.
b. Time and distance are relevant.
c. The screener must be stationary, except when both are moving in the same
path and the same direction.
d.
The screener must stay within his/her vertical plane with a stance
approximately shoulder width apart.
But this situation also definitely meets the NFHS definition of guarding:
4-23-1: Guarding is the act of legally placing the body in the path of an offensive opponent.
I think that 4-40-2-D (shoulder width apart) might be the key to the "block" interpretation, but why was this viewed as a guarding situation for over ten years, and then suddenly the NFHS changed it to a screening situation, without any comment, and without any rule change, and without any replacement casebook interpretation?