Moving screen vs boxing out

[ChuckElias]

Originally posted by Lotto
Possible point of confusion: I'm referring to NCAA rules, not NF.

You're right. I had assumed that you were talking Fed. The pertinent rules in Fed are 4-39-2c and 4-39-6. It states there specifically how moving screens may be legal.

Actually, moving screens are illegal by rule:

Rule 10, Section 20.

Art. 4. No player shall set a screen while moving.

That seems like a good point, Lotto, but it's really not as clear cut as that, even in the NCAA rulebook. You list article 4, but you don't mention article 5:

"When both opponents are moving in exactly the same path and direction and the screener slows down or stops and contact results, the trailing player shall be responsible for such contact."

So both players are moving, and one of them is specifically called the "screener", and contact results and the foul is on the trailing player, not the screener. So it would seem that his moving screen is entirely legal.

Maybe the language of article 4 needs to be cleaned up a little, or the word "screener" needs to be removed from article 5.

I'm not trying to pick a fight, Lotto, honest. I'm just trying to get the wording right. I am not trying to be nit-picker.

Chuck