How Rebounds Work « Early in the fourth quarter of an April game against Orlando, Chicago’s Jimmer Fredette came off a Taj Gibson screen and rose up for a left wing 3. As the ball arced toward the rim, Joakim Noah raced from the elbow toward the restricted area.Fredette’s shot missed, glancing off the rim, off the glass, and falling down just on the right side of the hoop.
In one smooth motion, Noah rose up, gathered the rebound, and dropped it down into the cylinder for an easy two points. He was in the perfect place at the perfect time. Maybe this was good fortune. Maybe it was something else. It looked like he knew exactly where the rebound was going to go. In a way, he probably did. What if he didn’t have to? Welcome to the NBA’s surveillance age. Those fancy cameras, hidden in the rafters of NBA arenas, are tracking more than just players. It can also help answer age-old basketball questions. During the 2013-14 regular season, players missed well over 100,000 field goal attempts. 1. 2. 3. Where Do Rebounds Go? | CourtVision. Where Do Rebounds Go? Here’s a basic basketball question: if a player misses a 3-point shot from the left corner, where will the rebound go? The answer to this question has obvious competitive advantages, regardless of whether you are playing a pick-up game at the park or you are playing in the gold-medal game of the Olympics.
So what’s the answer? Where do missed corner 3′s end up? Thanks to SportVu data, we can now answer this question. I plotted and analyzed the rebounding locations for over 26,000 missed shots from the 2011-2012 NBA season, including about 1,800 missed corner 3′s. When an NBA player misses a corner 3 from his left side, the rebounds go here: The spatial structure above is undeniable; missed corner 3′s go to the opposite side much more frequently than they ricochet back toward their origin.
So, where do rebounds happen? This interactive graphic reveals** where rebounds go according to shot location. I will provide much more detail later, but here are 4 main takeaways: The Coaches Insider - Basketball. Videos: Blake Griffin Rebounding Workout. Basketball - Video - Rebounding Tip Drill-Blake Griffin.