What is screen? What makes it legal or illegal? Watch this Rule Review and find out.

This Rule Review segment is going over plays involving screens. This video is dedicated to educating basketball officials on recognizing whether a screen set against an opponent is legal or not. Watching actual videos of plays involving screens, along with some basic instruction explaining the rule, helps officials learn faster and retain rule information better. We can all learn together by continually discussing the rules as they are written in the NFHS rules book and viewing actual high school basketball games reinforces that learning.

Because screens are a point of emphasis for the NFHS for the 2021/2022 basketball season it important we all try to get on the same page with a proper understanding of the factors that make up a legal screen. Many screens are obvious but many can be tough to determine, especially if it involves a moving player. Screens that need to allow time and distance are usually what makes this difficult rule more challenging. This will be the focus of this Rule Review segment. All video clips we reference in this segment on screens come from high school games and focus solely on the NFHS high school rules book.

Video #1
A player makes a solid screen delaying his opponent and allowing his teammate an open shot. But was this screen legal or not?
Video #2
The dribbler makes a great pass to his teammate at the top of the three point line and continues to block the opponent keeping him from defending his man. Legal screen?
Video #3
A back screen is set behind an opponent, outside his visual field, and contact is made as that opponent steps backward into the screener. Was enough time and distance given?
Video #4
After a screen is set within the visual field of his opponent, the defender pushes his way through the screen in order to continue his defensive path. Is this a foul or legal contact?
Video #5
This screen is set and a foul is called but if you look closely, you can see there was not any contact? Should this had been a foul?

Watching video clips is a good way to stay connected to the skill of officiating basketball but true education and learning can more effectively be attained when each video is annotated with diagrams and shading to point out key teaching points.

The Officials Institute, and the Rule Review segment, creates videos that don't leave you guessing about whether there was a foul, violation or not. Even though we cannot officiate in slow motion or freeze frames, by watching and reviewing video video in this fashion, we are able to "retrain our brain" so we can start seeing plays more accurately when we do see them in real time and increase our ability to get the call right.

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All rules referenced in this video are taken from the official rules book provided by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). To find out more about the NFHS, you can visit them at https://nfhs.org/