Najim wrote:first of all, read this explanation from the NBA Rulebook regarding a screen:
NBA Rulebook3. Screening
When a player screens in front of or at the side of a stationary opponent, he may be as close as he desires providing he does not make contact. His opponent can see him and, therefore, is expected to detour around the screen.
If he screens behind a stationary opponent, the opponent must be able to take a normal step backward without contact. Because the opponent is not expected to see a screener behind him, the player screened is given latitude of movement. The defender must be given an opportunity to change direction and avoid contact with the screener.
To screen a moving opponent, the player must stop soon enough to permit his opponent to stop or change direction. The distance between the player screening and his opponent will depend upon the speed at which the players are moving.
If two opponents are moving in the same direction and path, the player who is behind is responsible for contact. The player in front may stop or slow his pace, but he may not move backward or sidewards into his opponent. The player in front may or may not have the ball. This situation assumes the two players have been moving in identically the same direction and path before contact.
The phrase that the screener cannot make contact is crucial. The Screener can be as close as he wants from the front or the side BUT CANNOT INITIATE CONTACT.
now, watch this video where Garnett sets SEVERAL ILLEGAL Screens before finally being called... don't track the ball, but watch KG, the dude is going buck wild out there on the 3 point line like a crazed offensive lineman lunging at any blitzers who comes near him...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XoZ6R-rM-YTo count Garnett's illegal screens:
1. 0:07 - KG Sets screen on Vujacic. First of all, he establishes position while resting full on Sasha, the screener cannot initiate contact as KG does. Secondly, KG
both takes a step out to his left
and extends his let elbow out to give Sasha an extra shove after the screen is set. A Screener must be stationary. Grats 3 Violations in one screen.
2. 0:14 - KG Screens Fish off the House curl. KG never establishes position and keeps moving to his left and back while screening Fish. Violation 4.
3. 0:20 - KG screens Sasha. Good lord he decked Sasha. That's a great screen I gotta hand it to him on this one. He stayed still, Sasha initiated contact and paid the price. No violation here in my opinion.
4. 0:25 - KG screens Sasha again. Very illegal. Again, KG initiates the contact and extends with his arms to keep Sasha back. Violation 5.
5. 0:27 - KG screens Fish. Ok now KG is just into full NFL attach mode, finding any moving Laker he can and just nailing them. Again, he initiates contact and hits Fisher with his left hip. Violation 6. Finally the whistle is blown.
I thought #6 was the lighest of all the violations, but ironically this is the one he finally gets called on...
KG has been doing this for 3 games straight now, we finally got a call late in Game 3 about it, and now media pundits are saying it was a make up call for Game 2. AAAAAARGH!!
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aunque le hicieron faltas en muchas jugadas y los "toqueteos" constantes a Kobe realmente cambiaron la dinámica del partido.
