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Physics will tell you that to have severe contact (contact that causes bodies to go flying) requires that a player move through someone. Now what matters by rule is what happens next. B1 stops (even by falling over A2), no foul. B1 bulls over A2 and continues defending A1, foul.
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Coach. I agree with your rules interpretation here. I gotta question your physics, though. It's pretty easy to send a body flying without going through someone. For example, one billiard ball hits another and the 2nd ball continues on, while the first stops. Similarly, consider the case where the 130 lbs. guard sets a screen against a 230 lb. forward. B1 (230 lbs) hits the blind screen, stops on contact, and watches A2 (130 lbs.) fly into the mats against the wall. Just like the desk toys with the ball-bearings rocking back and forth.
In any case, as long as B doesn't go through the screen, don't blow the whistle. The whole purpose of a screen is to attract contact.
Tue Jan 08, 2002, 07:17pm
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