Pick N roll or Moving Screen

[zebraman]

Originally posted by JRutledge
I still would want displacement at the levels I work. Because if a screener comes over to make a screen and it is illegal, I feel that the "screeny" should make some attempt to get around the screen. If they give up the position and just back off, if there is contact or not, I am not calling a foul. And even in the rules is suggests that displacement still needs to be present on any screen. But that does not mean you have to have a lot of contact to do so either.
Peace

I don't think that NFHS rules indicate that there needs to be displacement at all on an illegal screen for it to be a foul. In fact, it's pretty clear in reading about screens in the rule book and case book that merely impeding the progress of an opponent with an illegal screen is a foul. If the defensive player is put at a disadvantage by an illegal screen and can no longer stay with his/her player due to even slight contact, it's a foul. There is much less contact required to gain an advantage on a screen then there is on other plays where we choose to pass on some contact such as rebounding action where the contact does not prevent the "right player" from getting the rebound.

Z