Does this NIT timer know the rule?

[Bart Tyson]

Originally posted by Hawks Coach
Bart
It is really simple, like night and day or apples and oranges. The rules make allowances for screens outside the visual field of a defender, at least twice in fact (and using the exact same terminology). The rules clearly state that contact in this case is incidental if the defender stops upon making contact. This is because the defender is forced to play the ball and respond to ball movement and may not be able to see the screen - the dribbler and the screener create the situation that causes the defender to hit the screener and should expect it to occur.

The rules do not allow a player exercising free movement with the ball to crash into a stationary player. The ball handler is supposed to control where he goes. How you find two completely unrelated situations to be in common shows that you choose to read the intricacies of these rules, you want all contact treated the same regardless of what the rules say with respect to certain specified contact being incidental.

Rough play is also in the rule. But, for the sake of not rehashing the screen play, just address the 1) contact, but not through the opponent. 2) same called game throuhout the game. whats not called early, is not called late.