Rebounding Notes Outline

We take great pride in our rebounding. We have one of the top rebounders in the country in Junior Post Emma Cannon. Here is another handout that our players put in their notebooks. We then discuss and build our rebounding off these principles.

REBOUNDING

Statistics Related to Winning:
1. Good field goal percentage
2. Turnover Ratio
3. Rebounding—The top 20 rebounding teams in the nation, win over 80% of their games.

Principles of Rebounding—
1. Assume:
a. Offense—assume that every shot is a miss. Send 4 to boards.
b. Defense—assume every opponent is a terrible shooter. Send all 5 players to make physical contact.

2. Chin the Ball:
a. Chinning the ball—
i. Fingers spread wide and straight up when holding the ball.
ii. Elbows are held straight out in both directions.
iii. Try to squeeze the basketball.

3. Two From Two
a. Rebound with two feet with two hands.

4. Go Up With Both Hands Up
a. Both hands are up with elbows at least shoulder high


OFFENSIVE REBOUNDING
1. Offensive Rebounding Rules:
a. See The Shot
i. A shot taken from 20 feet away will usually be rebounded 10 feet from the glass. The rule is half the distance of the shot.
ii. Shot taken on the left side will usually be rebounded on the right side.
b. Assume That All Shots Will Be Missed
c. Go To A Gap & Make Contact
i. Get the best piece of the pie. If the shot is taken from the right side, the best piece of the pie would be the baseline side of the defensive player.
ii. Go to a gap and block out the defensive player.
iii. Go to a gap and get even.
iv. Keep the ball alive.
1. How do you go to a gap?
a. If the player is in a block out position, you tap with the outside hand and swim with the inside hand. Get in a wide block position after this.


DEFENSIVE REBOUNDING
1. Defensive Rebounding Rules:
a. See or Hear The Shot
i. This is why a shot call is so vital. You are so involved with defending that you cannot see the shot. You must have a shot call by the person guarding the shooter.
ii. Get visual contact before you get physical contact. You must pick up who you are going to block out.
iii. Physical contact inside the arc. Proactive contact. I go after him.

Game Situations

We pride ourselves on preparation. We work to cover every area that may come to our players. The following is a handout that we go over with our team and add to throughout the season.

Re: Game Situations

1. General Rules
a. New rules
b. Key rules
c. No facial expressions, win the officials.

2. Game Day Procedure
a. Shoot around—short but intense—focused
b. Team goals
c. Scouting report/ game plan

3. Lockerroom Attitude
a. Preparation: Mentally & Physically
b. Team thoughts to relax, forget yourself
c. Quiet, aggressive, confident
d. Prayer
e. Team together

4. Pre-Game Warmup
a. Arrival time to gym
b. Rehearsal
c. Concentrate on your physical and mental preparation
d. Quick movement, hands ready, “second wind”
e. Enthusiasm and encouragement for teammates
f. Position shooting
g. FT’s
h. Sound fundamentals
i. Set the tone

5. Pre-Game Introductions
a. Hustle out
b. Individual and team enthusiasm and determination
c. Identify your match-up
d. Entire team together


6. Bench Organization
a. Will vary with situations
b. Attention to game, concentrate, enthusiasm
c. Bench decorum

7. Jump Ball
a. Technique: Hands ready, knees bent
b. Assignments: Sandwich, get by your man at ½ circle, defensive or offensive
c. It’s a loose ball, get every one, we want possession.

8. Substitutions
a. Report to scorer, person at scorebook, at the “X”
b. Official must beckon you in
c. Towel, get the man you are guarding
d. Sprint off floor
e. Bench up
f. When coming out touch each player on bench

9. Time Out Organization
a. How to call
b. Sprint off floor to bench, seating arrangement
c. Water and towel quickly
d. Attention is most important
e. “Give us your eyes”

10. FT’s
a. Block out assignments
b. Hands up and knees bent

11. Half-Time Procedure
a. All warm-ups to locker room
b. Use rest room
c. Coaches meet and discuss
d. Team discusses until coaches enter/ keys on board
e. Adjustments to make
f. First 5 possession of 2nd half are key
g. You usually do not win the game in the first half
h. Check back in to start the half





12. Post Game
a. Shake hands with opponent
b. Class
c. Hustle to locker room immediately after leaving opponents
d. Congratulate/ Encourage teammates
e. Discuss with coaches, “Even Keel”
f. Time for next practice/ game
g. Locker room cleaner when leaving than when we arrived

13. Discussing the Game
a. Do not make excuses
b. Focus on your mistakes rather than finding fault in teammates
c. Enjoy the victory but remember to be gracious in victory and emotionally balanced after defeat.
d. If we improve each game, we have no defeats, only bad performances.
e. Be realistic.
f. Think about the team and your teammates.
g. Prepare and improve fundamentals.




Nothing is more important than our individual and Team Attitudes

Stephen Covey 8 Characteristics of Principle Centered Leaders

STEPHEN COVEY
Principle-Centered Leaders

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;
Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

Covey opens his book, Principle-Centered Leadership, with this traditional quote. The basis for much of Covey’s theory on leadership is that ineffective people try to manage their time around priorities, whereas effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships according to principles—natural laws governing values that are universally valid.

He outlines eight characteristics of Principle-Centered Leaders:

1. They are continually learning. Leaders are always curious, always trying to develop new skills.
2. They are service oriented. Life is a mission, not a career. Develop a sense of contribution and service.
3. They radiate positive energy. Their optimism becomes self-fulfilling.
4. They believe in other people. Create a climate for growth.
5. They lead balanced lives. They read, watch, observe and learn.
6. They see life as an adventure.
7. They are synergistic. Synergy is a state in which the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Leaders improve almost any situation they get into.
8. They exercise self-renewal. They work to develop the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. By exercising these aspects of their life, they develop a strong and healthy character, discipline and will.

Limiting Turnovers

Eliminating Turnovers:

3000 games of analysis +4.2 wins 64% of the time

Motion Checklist

1) Must have established screeners

2) Shot Selection

3) Shot opportunities
How will we get shots and who will get them?

4) Offensive Rebounding

5) Spacing

6) Penetration: Drive and Space

7) TPDCR--Get ball inside
Transition/ Post/ Drives/ Cutters/ Rebounds

8) Turnovers

9) Secondary

10) Entries

Cutting & Screening Thoughts

We scrimmaged our practice players in a live 2nd half scrimmage today. The most glaring part was our lack of movement and spacing. Here are a few thoughts:

Three things you can do in basketball:
1. Move the basketball
2. Move people—Johnny Orr used to run motion w/o screens.Screening—negative to screening is that you momentarily destroy spacing

Re: ARETE

Re: Arete

There are moments like this when I feel I possess that elusive quality known as class. More frequently, I am certain I don’t. But I am aware that it is always available to me. Anyone can have class. It’s character is nonetheless elusive.

In talking about class and trying to define it, one runs the risk of sounding silly and snobbish. For one thing, not only is class difficult to define, it is much more evident in its absence. Since part of class is not boasting about it, the no-class people stand out. For every class athlete you see, you can name any number of spoilsports, showboats, alibiers and cheaters.

The Greeks have a word for it. Arete means the best. Arete also contains the idea of something, whether it be an object or a creature, doing exactly what it was made for. Arete means being the absolute embodiment of what it was designed to be. It is not being better than something else; it s the best of what it is. Arete is me being the best possible ______ I can be.

The important thing about actions is not what you do but the way you do it. “Every calling is great, said Oliver Wendell Holmes; “when greatly pursued.” It is the old refrain all over again. Have no care for the outcome. Play the game to the hilt. Show a little class.

The great ones, whether they are mechanics or cardiologists, waiters or housewives, always do. They have all the virtues and qualities that go with class. They believe the way they do something matters, and in the long run that is all that matters.

The distinction between life lived as a success and life lived as a failure as I see it, is a matter of class. Class is a product of body and mind and spirit. I suspect that for me it begins with an all-consuming desire to do my best, a compulsion that everyone has felt from time to time for different activities. My task it to do it to everything I do.


Taken from This Running Life
By Dr. George Sheehan