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Originally posted by BayStateRef
I am glad that everyone who has replied is so smug and so arrogant and so sure of their rules knowledge that they feel no need to actually answer the question. Refresher exams often pose seemingly silly or unlikely-in-real-life scenarios. Yet, there isn't a season that goes by where I do not encounter some wierd, strange or obscure play that involves a complete knowledge of the rules as well as the confidence to tell the coach that despite "never having seen that call in 20 years," it is indeed correct by rule..
But then I do not have the luxury of picking all my assignments, so I don't always have AAAA state champion games played above the rim, by well-coached teams with great body control and outstanding basketball skills. Sometimes, it's a 5th grade girls travel game where ponytails may actually touch out of bounds while they are holding the ball inbounds.
As for the specific question, I cannot find anything that makes this "screen" illegal. Assuming all the other rules for a legal screen are met (no contact, distance, time, stationary and, in the frontcourt, not controling the ball for 5 seconds behind the screening teammates), I have nothing.
Of course, to reach this opinion, I had to look up a number of rules and definitions -- which presumably is the point of the review question.
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I guess you didn't look up R10-6-1, eh? I think I can make an argument outa part of the language in that particular cite to state that this type of screen really is illegal.
I also agree that IAABO refresher exams post silly and unlikely rules scenarios. They should, however, post questions that do have a definitive rules answer.
This question is stoopid. It does
NOT have a definitive answer. It doesn't really test anyone's rules knowledge. It's a waste of time. Anybody that thinks differently is smug and arrogant.
Sat Oct 15, 2005, 05:43pm
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