Please Help Me Understand (illegal screen)

[mick]

Originally posted by Luv4Asian8
Hi Everyone,

I am fairly new and need to know what to look for when calling an illegal screen. I sometimes get lost in the language of the rule and have a hard time trying to apply it.

Thanks

Welcome Luv4Asian8,
Try this from the Points of Emphasis.
http://www.nfhs.org/Sports/basketball_emphasis.htm
mick

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B. Screening:

1. A legal screener must be stationary prior to contact with hands and arms close to the body. When these two requirements are not met, and when there is sufficient contact delivered by the screener to bump, slow or displace, it is a foul on the screener.

2. When a screen is blind, or a rear screen, it is only legal when the screened player is allowed a normal step backward. The screened player must then make a legitimate attempt to get around a legal screen without forcing rough or "displacing" contact. This type of contact must result in a foul on the screened player.

3. When a screen is set in view of an opposing player, the screener can get as close as he or she wishes in a legal stationary position. The burden is on the screened player to avoid contact that may result in a foul.