Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Rebounding



I like the idea of one-handed "tip" and "tap" rebounding rather than two-handed grasp-and-swing-elbows rebounding.  First, two-handed rebounding necessitates a lot of aggression for the purpose of boxing out, and this make the game more like football than it ought to be. 

If your coach encourages you to seek to top the loose rebound to your teammates, you are largely freed up from tangling with opposing players and you can use your creativity and range to get your fingers on that ball and deflect it as propitiously as possible.  It is often possible to tap the ball far upcourt to a teammate who is out front on a potential break-away.  But this won't happen for a team playing box-out and grasp-with-two-hands rebounding.

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