contact on a blind screen

[Hawks Coach]

Originally posted by bob jenkins
I think coaches (okay, SOME coaches) are teaching that it's the sceener's responsibility to initiate contact -- not the player being defended.

You are right that many screeners end up trying to initiate contact, but I am not sure they are really being taght to do so. I teach players that the screener is responsible to a point in that they must position themselves in such a way that the player being defended can run off the screen. But the screener must stop and it becomes the teammate that must get skin-to-skin on the screen. Most illegal screens are the fault of poor cuts and screeners trying to make sure the screen happens anyway.

And even though I teach it, my cutters still make bad cuts and my screeners still try to help them. And because they get away with it about 2/3s of the time, they always look at me like "Whaaat!" when they actually get called for one!