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Right or wrong, ball handling screeners seem to be customarily treated differently than screeners without the ball. Many of us seem to pay more attention to the third sentence of the comment rather than the first two sentences. COMMENT: Screening principles apply to the dribbler who attempts to cut off an opponent who is approaching in a different path from the rear. In this case, the dribbler must allow such opponent a maximum of two steps or an opportunity to stop or avoid contact. When both the dribbler and the opponent are moving in exactly the same path and same direction, the player behind is responsible for contact which results if the player in front slows down or stops. |
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That's because customarily, the primary function of a screener is to get in somebody's way, which often leads to contact. Customarily, the ballhandler is occupied doing other things, but on the rare occasion that it happens, make the call and move on. "Sometimes, you have to just referee." |
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Player control fouls are usually called for a ball handler plowing into a defender, not for a defender plowing into a ball handler from the rear. If I ever call this, I'm not looking forward to explaining it to the coach, even if I whip out my rulebook and prove that I'm correct. |
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My posts have all referred to one ball handler and one defender, and the defender is always approaching from behind. Like a dribbler who changes direction and slows down in an attempt to run the offense and is plowed into by a defender from behind, or a dribbler who changes direction and slows down to get his footwork established before a shot attempt and is plowed into by a defender from behind. I've never seen these called a player control foul. |
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1. If the dribbler can "sense" the defender, I am going to assume that the defender is following so close that their paths do overlap somewhat. With that, if the dribbler moves "more" into the path and stops, I have a foul on the defense. 2. If it is 100% clear that the offense made the intentional act to "screen" the defense and their paths are clearly different, I will call a foul on the offense. This threshold is pretty high though and very unlikely to play out. 3. If both the defense and offense are unaware of each others movements, this can be incidental. |
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I've never EVER seen this called by an official at any game that I have watched or worked. Not one time. |
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Foul on the dribbler, we went the other way. |
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The "backup a step" may have helped. |
Indeed, backing up is waaaaaay different. In that case, it is a PC foul...every...single...time.;)
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I agree 100%! |
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