Foul or incidental contact?

[CoachP]

Originally Posted by rfp

So in this situation, you can have a trainwreck -- and everyone in the gym howling -- and no foul.

From what I've read around here (and heard from peers in the area):

If B1 hits A2 and stops as soon as he/she makes contact, no foul. I suppose A2 still could go flying--flopping....

If B1 hits the screen and proceeds "thru" A2, then it's a foul. This case is more than likely the "train wreck"

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by CoachP

From what I've read around here (and heard from peers in the area):

If B1 hits A2 and stops as soon as he/she makes contact, no foul. I suppose A2 still could go flying--flopping....

If B1 hits the screen and proceeds "thru" A2, then it's a foul. This case is more than likely the "train wreck"

Or if both go to the floor because even B1 couldn't "stop", there is still no foul as the screen was set for the explicit purpose taking contact to free up A1. It did that.

[Adam]

Camron's right, the contact can legitimately send the screener to the floor and there may or may not be a foul.

IMO that's one you gotta see from the beginning to the end. Only seeing the end result will make you want to pop, then you'd be guessing. Can't be a ball watcher & rule correct in those cases.

[gslefeb]

"4-27-4: A player who is screened within his/her visual field is expected to
avoid contact with the screener by stopping or going around the screener. In
cases of screens outside the visual field, the opponent may make inadvertent
contact with the screener, and such contact is to be ruled incidental contact,
provided the screener is not displaced if he/she has the ball.

It is Inadvertent contact if B1 did not see or could not avoid the screen then the contact is incidental. No foul.

If B1 sees the screen and can avoid but chooses to run through the screener then it is a foul. The "runs through" versus contact as stated by CoachP

[JRutledge]

Incidental all the way if there was enough time and distance.

Peace

[Indianaref]

4-27-4: A player who is screened within his/her visual field is expected to
avoid contact with the screener by stopping or going around the screener. In
cases of screens outside the visual field, the opponent may make inadvertent
contact with the screener, and such contact is to be ruled incidental contact,
provided the screener is not displaced if he/she has the ball.

Have you ever seen a screener with the ball?