screening

[kalr]

Is this legal? An offensive player sets a screen. As the defender attempts to go around the screen, the screener hops or shuffles into the defender's path.

I play pickup basketball with an honorable bunch of guys (and one gal). If we understand a rule, we generally abide by it. However, there's some contention on this issue. Some players think it's a legitimate move; others see it as an illegal screen.

Thanks for any clues.

Kal in Colorado

[just another ref]

Originally posted by kalr
Is this legal? An offensive player sets a screen. As the defender attempts to go around the screen, the screener hops or shuffles into the defender's path.

no

[KingTripleJump]

nope

[JRutledge]

First all there must be contact for any of this to be illegal and there must be displacment as well. Just having contact might not warrant a foul at all. In other words, if the defensive player saw the screen and decided to stop and there was very slight contact, then I would not call a thing. But if the defensive player was trying to get to a spot and the screen cut him off, it is a foul.

Peace

[mick]

Originally posted by kalr
Is this legal? An offensive player sets a screen. As the defender attempts to go around the screen, the screener hops or shuffles into the defender's path.

I play pickup basketball with an honorable bunch of guys (and one gal). If we understand a rule, we generally abide by it. However, there's some contention on this issue. Some players think it's a legitimate move; others see it as an illegal screen.

Thanks for any clues.

Kal in Colorado

What Rut said.

[Indy_Ref]

What Rut & Mick said...plus, I might also add, if illegal contact, even if only slight, causes an unfair advantage to the team setting the screen, I'd call that one too...but probably only in a girls' game.

[Hawks Coach]

I would also add that you have to see this. Was time and distance allowed when player moved? Many people think that a moving screen is something illegal. Making illegal contact is illegal. Moving continuously, then stopping and setting oneself before contact is made is not illegal.

I actually watched a game where the ref called a no-contact moving screen as a violation - no foul called! I explained to him later that it doesn't work that way - you need contact.

[kalr]

Thanks for the clarification, guys!