Five Second Count Screen

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

If there's a screener between the player with the ball and the defender, the defender is no longer guarding the player with the ball.

The count should have been discontinued.

Rule 4-40-8: A player may not "...push the screener aside to MAINTAIN a guarding position on an opponent."

The key here is that a player CAN MAINTAIN a legal guarding position through a screen - just can't displace the screener. Just because there is a screener does not mean A1 is not being closely guarded by B1 as he passes by or through the screen. Likewise, if B2 picks up A1 on the other side of the screen the count continues.