Closely Guarded ?

[blindzebra]

Originally posted by Mark Dexter

You can't, so that situation is put in to counter for the fact that a player cannot force his/her way through two opponents standing within 3 feet of each other. If the five second count weren't applicable in this case, then a team trying to stall could just have their dribbler stand next to the sideline, and have the 4 other players stand around him.

If you read that section it says control the ball for 5 seconds behind this wall of teammates. The difference between this situation and a normal screen is A1 has 5 seconds TOTAL behind that screen for a violation. Under a normal screen they may hold, dribble, hold for 12 seconds.

Of course this language, like most of the language for closley guarded, is up for interpretation, but no where does it say in the rule book, case book, or the hand out POE that a count ends during a screen.