Illegal Screens

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by A Pennsylvania Coach

The officials are supposed to know the rules. If we do something illegal, they call it and we adjust.

Well, that certainly tells me all that I need to know about you.

I'll teach something that I know is completely illegal, and it's OK because I've never been caught.

You're a credit to the coaching community.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Well, that certainly tells me all that I need to know about you.

I'll teach something that I know is completely illegal, and it's OK because I've never been caught.

You're a credit to the coaching community.

Here's something I didn't read in a fortune cookie, Confuscius actually said this:

The mind of the superior man is conversant with righteousness. The mind of the mean man is conversant with gain.

Your lucky number is 11 (I added that part)

[A Pennsylvania Coach]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Well, that certainly tells me all that I need to know about you.

I'll teach something that I know is completely illegal, and it's OK because I've never been caught.

You're a credit to the coaching community.

I'll give this one last try before I give up.

I don't know that it is completely illegal. I do know it is a judgment call, and in the judgment of dozens of officials over the past several years, it is completely LEGAL.

If one gets called, then it is ILLEGAL, and we'll abide by that judgment.

Get off your soapbox and join us back here in the real world.

[Dan_ref]

How can extending elbows forward in this un-natural manner to screen and then hold NOT be illegal?

There are 3 possibilities:

- Coach is not describing what he's actually teaching well enough in his posts

- Players are not actually executing on the court what coach is teaching

- The officials the coach run in to are not seeing this illegal action or they are ignoring it.

I know some PA officials so I doubt it's the third option (but if it is I wonder what other rough play they are letting go ).

As I said I don't see this in my games, but if I did I would make sure it didn't happen twice...unless the screened player did that for me.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by A Pennsylvania Coach

If one gets called, then it is ILLEGAL, and we'll abide by that judgment.

Get off your soapbox and join us back here in the real world.

And you'll continue to teach and employ it until you do happen to get called. And if a player gets hurt while you're using an illegal tactic, that would be OK too. Great rationalization. Great ethics.

You'll never get it. It might be the real world but that doesn't mean that it doesn't disgust me. I'll stand by my opinion of you, not that I think that'll make you lose any sleep anyway.