STEVEHOLT
There are FIVE letters in the name BLAIN.
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The low hanging fruit when it comes to discussions regarding zone rebounding often center on lack of block out responsibilities. Sure...that is a thing, but i think there are a couple other factors, more difficult to correct for, that render zone rebounding more difficult.
1. Against a man defense, the offense has to cut, run, move, etc to receive the ball. There is no pre-ordained area they can just stand and receive a pass as a pressure release or for the purposes of establishing a scoring threat position. Basically a man defense forces the offense to work to just get open. This often results in players being taken away from the basket and thus the odds of them getting a rebound are reduced simply by proximity effects.
2. Against a zone defense, you can just stand where they aint. Go pick out a spot near the basket which is between coverage regions for the defenders. Plant your self there. Heck, have your buddy do the same thing. In fact, two of you go really close to the rim and sandwhich the center. The only way you wont have an advantage is if the wing really cheats down towards you , but this makes it 3 vs two up high.
This is why we see so many offensive boards. Watch how often its simply a two vs one situation on rebounds. You arent going to overcome that advantage unless you have Chamberlain on your team.
Mind you, the zone offers defensive advantages as well, one of which is rocket speed transition from defense to offense, not to mention forcing the offense to take alot of time working to get a good look. It does a great job of negating speed and dribble penetration. Our zone in particular has historically been great at forcing guys into difficult mid range jumpers (the famous foul line misnomer argument we always hear about as the key to beating our zone...we WANT you to get the ball there, because now we have four guys surrounding you.and very few can make plays from there)
Point being, no defense is perfect and any defense played poorly will be trashed. This is just to highlight an innate factor as to why we don't have good rebounding teams on the D end even when we have people who one would think should dominate on both O and D sides of the glass.
1. Against a man defense, the offense has to cut, run, move, etc to receive the ball. There is no pre-ordained area they can just stand and receive a pass as a pressure release or for the purposes of establishing a scoring threat position. Basically a man defense forces the offense to work to just get open. This often results in players being taken away from the basket and thus the odds of them getting a rebound are reduced simply by proximity effects.
2. Against a zone defense, you can just stand where they aint. Go pick out a spot near the basket which is between coverage regions for the defenders. Plant your self there. Heck, have your buddy do the same thing. In fact, two of you go really close to the rim and sandwhich the center. The only way you wont have an advantage is if the wing really cheats down towards you , but this makes it 3 vs two up high.
This is why we see so many offensive boards. Watch how often its simply a two vs one situation on rebounds. You arent going to overcome that advantage unless you have Chamberlain on your team.
Mind you, the zone offers defensive advantages as well, one of which is rocket speed transition from defense to offense, not to mention forcing the offense to take alot of time working to get a good look. It does a great job of negating speed and dribble penetration. Our zone in particular has historically been great at forcing guys into difficult mid range jumpers (the famous foul line misnomer argument we always hear about as the key to beating our zone...we WANT you to get the ball there, because now we have four guys surrounding you.and very few can make plays from there)
Point being, no defense is perfect and any defense played poorly will be trashed. This is just to highlight an innate factor as to why we don't have good rebounding teams on the D end even when we have people who one would think should dominate on both O and D sides of the glass.
