Pushing through screens

[deecee]

plows into the screener -- how do you explain the injuries from that no call contact?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by deecee

plows into the screener -- how do you explain the injuries from that no call contact?

You explain by using the rules!!!!!!

Rule 4-27-1- "The mere fact that contact occurs does NOT constitute a foul."

Rule 10-6-3- "In cases of screens outside the visual field, the opponent may make inadvertant contact with the screener and if the opponent is running rapidly, the contact may be SEVERE. Such a case is to be ruled as INCIDENTAL contact if the opponent stops or attempts to stop on contact and moves around the screen, and provided the screener is not displaced if he/she has the ball."

NFHS rules 4-27 and 10-6-3 lay out exactly how screens should be called.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by deecee

plows into the screener -- how do you explain the injuries from that no call contact?

You don't. A player setting a blind screen must expect to be run into with potentially extreme force. If he doesn't want to get hit, he shouldn't set the screen. As long as the screenee, upon contact, stops or diverts the screenee has not fouled...even if ambulances are called. The screen has served it's purpose if the defender is forced to stop or change directions, even if they are subsequently able to get back into the play.