Make The Call: Illegal Screen

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

The only question I have, did the contact displace the defender or did the defender try to go around him and slight contact took place?

This was my thought on first look. It's a question of whether the screener caused contact or did the defender see the contact coming and try to avoid it. As far as I'm concerned it's the latter.

Originally Posted by Da Official

I'm thinking the screener was a repeat offender or there had been some illegal screens before this play and the L was looking and ready to bust the next illegal screen.

I think this definitely had something to do with it. The call comes in the second half of the game. There must have been something that happened on a screen either a few minutes prior or in the first half which helped this one along.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by JetMetFan

This was my thought on first look. It's a question of whether the screener caused contact or did the defender see the contact coming and try to avoid it. As far as I'm concerned it's the latter.

Yet, the screener came out even farther and created contact to ensure the defender was impeded by the screen. The screener moved out on purpose to create contact and did so and delayed the defender even more than they would have been delayed by simply going around the original screen. That is a textbook illegal screen.

Some plays deserve a whistle even though the offended party is not knocked on their butt.