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Old Sun Jun 30, 2024, 02:54pm
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Excessive Swinging, No Contact, Illegal ...

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... my focus was on this situation (an illegal position) being one that carried no written penalty. I even went so far as to ask if anyone could think of others...repeatedly. No one responded to that but yet, they kept going on about the illegal screen concern.
This was as close as I could get to a similar situation.

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But with no contact, it's not a foul, and I doubt that it will ever be a violation (like excessive swinging of elbows with no contact).
And I did try to understand bucky's concerns, offering an olive branch, so to speak.

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An offensive player setting a screen in an illegal position (extra wise stance, extended knees, extended elbows, moving) is gaining an advantage when a defensive player is forced, avoiding contact, to go the "long way" around such an illegal position screen.
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