Back screens

[BigCat]

Originally Posted by Rich

If they're short of contact it can't be a foul. I'm sure you must mean contact but no displacement?

If you set a back pick two inches away from the player, instead of a full step. He attempts to move to follow his man and makes contact w the screener-- he's stopped. ( i dont see that as displacement but prevented from going to point B). That's a foul under the screening rule. Again, its not called that way. Stopping short of contact anywhere on the floor is accepted in practice.

There must be some contact for there to be a foul obviously. Similarly, if im going to screen a moving opponent and jump in front of him just shy of contact...completely set etc. ..he then hits me and is prevented from getting to point B because that's a foul on me. Did not give him time and distance to avoid contact. Rule tells us where the legal position on floor is that we can set the pick.