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Basketball Rebounding Fundamentals

Individual Basketball Rebounding Skills

Important mental skills for basketball rebounding include determination and effort.

Important intellectual skills for basketball rebounding include understanding that basketball rebounding is a horizontal process as much as it is a vertical process. Floor position between your opponent and the basketball is better than you and your opponent both jumping up into the air to get the ball.

Important individual physical skills for basketball rebounding include the following:

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Defensive basketball rebounders should:

when a shot is released

get between their opponent and the location to which the basketball rebound is likely to fall

if their opponent is a potential basketball rebounder, make solid body contact with their opponent, then either:

maintain the solid body contact with their opponent to prevent their opponent from getting to the basketball rebound; OR

move toward the spot to which they expect the basketball to rebound.

If they are body to body with their opponent, basketball rebounders should attempt to get their arms on top of the nearest arm of the opponent so the opponent's arm can not interfere with their own arms reaching for the basketball rebound.

Offensive basketball rebounders should:

When a basketball shot is expected or released:

Cut around or fake and cut around their opponent to get between their opponent and the location to which the basketball is expected to rebound.

If the opponent has correctly made solid body contact to prevent such a maneuver, the offensive basketball rebounder should use the body contact as a pivot point and reverse pivot around the opponent to achieve a position either beside or in front of the basketball rebounding opponent. This is the classic move that sometimes results in the opponent falling down when the force against which they are pushing suddenly disappears due to the reverse pivot moving the person from behind the opponent to beside or in front of them. If they are still leaning backwards to block out, and the opponent has moved from behind them, they fall down and the opponent gets the baskketball rebound.

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Team basketball rebounding skills

Defensive team basketball rebounding

If each player gets between their opponent and to location to which the basketball is expected to rebound (often a place near the basket), most rebounds should be gathered.

Offensive team basketball rebounding

If the player's shoot only from positions and times expected by teammates, then teammates will have an advantage in anticipating when a shot will be attempted and positioning themselves relative to their opponents accordingly.

If the players shoot only when teammates are in rebounding position, then offensive basketball rebounds will increase.

Here are links to additional basketball rebounding information:

Ken Lindsay's basketball rebounding page

David and Matt's basketball rebounding page

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