illegal screen

[Camron Rust]

[QUOTE=JRutledge;843934]As a general rule, the defender (or screened player) usually is not going to get a call from me if they are not displaced or they simple give up on the play because they are being screened. I want the defender to usually earn the call by keep moving in the same direction, not just stop because an illegal screen is in front of him. I equate this to holding in football where we want the player being held to attempt to get away. If the defender in football just accepts they are being held and stops or dances with the blocker, then I would not make the call. Too often basketball players accept their plight and will not try to run through the screen or go around taking themselves out of the play instead of being taken out of the play with the contact from the screen. Now this is the philosophy I used to be consistent on calling screens and usually helps me get the obvious violations.

Peace[/QUOTE

^ What he said (minus the football stuff since I don't do football)]