Iowa focuses on rebounding

[anon_i8nzeu2gbf0ba]

A Press-Citizen story quoted players saying they were focusing on rebounding this week. Pemsl said they worked on "conditioning and attacking the glass." But no one mentioned blocking out.

I wish someone would ask Fran exactly how Iowa teaches rebounding and, specifically, if blocking out is an old school technique that they no longer teach.

Here's the link to the whole story: http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sp...mccaffery-likely-keep-deep-rotation/97995300/

 

[Hawk_4shur]

"Blocking out" went the way of the peach basket and the two handed set shot. Get with the times, OP!

(Heavy sarcasm!)

 

[2432Hawk]

You can box out all you want but if someone missed they step in front and take your rebound. Position, angles, and reaction and quickness to the ball are keys in rebounding.

I'm great at boxing out and position/angles, but terrible at getting to the ball quick enough

 

[mazda1]

Once in a while the shooter has an edge, but what concerns me is our inability to keep the other 4 on our back and to avoid getting pushed too far under the hoop.

 

[ZumaHawk]

Half the time Cook is under the net.....perfect position to let his guy get a rebound put it back up for a bucket. Then Cook can take it out of bounds easier.

 

[kcgolfer]

Rebounding/blocking out is an issue for our bigs, but, our guards need to look for the long rebounds on 3 pt shots. Too many times those long rebounds go right back to our opponents.

 

[Kurt Warner]

Cook should be a beast on the boards

 

[SDHawkDoc]

That they're acknowledging it's an issue is a start. Now, for the players to buy in and actually show it on the court will take some work.

 

[RocknRollface]

You can box out all you want but if someone missed they step in front and take your rebound. Position, angles, and reaction and quickness to the ball are keys in rebounding.

I'm great at boxing out and position/angles, but terrible at getting to the ball quick enough

The act of boxing out is not allowing someone to step in front of you by keeping your body in between them and the basket.

 

[2432Hawk]

The act of boxing out is not allowing someone to step in front of you by keeping your body in between them and the basket.

Right.....but there are 4 others on the other team going for that ball possibly

 

[EpenesaEpenesa]

You can box out all you want but if someone missed they step in front and take your rebound. Position, angles, and reaction and quickness to the ball are keys in rebounding.

I'm great at boxing out and position/angles, but terrible at getting to the ball quick enough

Iowa's plenty quick enough, their positioning is not good. I will say it is getting better though. Dom Uhl has actually done a pretty decent job blocking out the past few weeks.

 

[funnyfletcher]

bring in Reggie to teach them how to rebound. Probably the best rebounder at Iowa I've seen in my time watching the Hawks.

 

[hawkeyeguy69]

bring in Reggie to teach them how to rebound. Probably the best rebounder at Iowa I've seen in my time watching the Hawks.

I like that idea. They can start by watching his tape. The guy was a rebounding machine.

 

[EastIowaHawk]

Our best rebounders are the quick guys. Jok and Baer lead Iowa in rebounding. Of all the big guys, Cordell Pemsl is in the lead. Surprisingly, Pemsl has out-rebounded starter Moss (who has super quicks) by more than triple as many boards. And per game, he has more than starter Cook. By minutes played, our five best rebounders are Baer, Pemsl, Uhl, Wagner and Kriener. In absolute minutes played, Kriener is our top rebounder. By minutes played, our worst rebounder is Moss (in our top nine rotation). As some posters said, quickness beats blocking out. Cook, even factoring the games he missed, is not in our top three, surprisingly.

Iowa total rebound stats:
Baer 155
Jok 142
Pemsl 131
Uhl 91
Wagner and Cook 87
Bohannon 62
Kriener 53
Moss 41, but NEXT comes the really interesting facts:

Rebounds by minutes played:
1. Kriener .30
2. Pemsl .26
3. Baer .25
4. Uhl .23
5. Wagner .21
6. Jok .19
7. Cook .19
8. Bohannon .09
9. Moss .09

So the raw data shows that if we want two guys to step up their rebounding, it would be Moss and Cook. I think this is very surprising data.

 

[mazda1]

Just for fun break out soley the defensive rebounding stats. We've got guys who can rebound and they show it on the offensive end, but defensively don't show up.

If you've got the inside position on free throws and you regularly can't put up any defensive rebounds something is wrong.

 

[Hawksfor3]

A Press-Citizen story quoted players saying they were focusing on rebounding this week. Pemsl said they worked on "conditioning and attacking the glass." But no one mentioned blocking out.

I wish someone would ask Fran exactly how Iowa teaches rebounding and, specifically, if blocking out is an old school technique that they no longer teach.

Here's the link to the whole story: http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sp...mccaffery-likely-keep-deep-rotation/97995300/

Jess Settles said on BTN during a showing of 1996 Iowa vs Illinois game, with Tom Dienhart, that Tom Davis' biggest emphasis was on rebounding.

All the players, in every position, were expected to rebound.

Jess stated that any player who only had two or three rebounds in a game felt bad. That was the importance of rebounding to Davis' team and the players. I watched West Virginia play this season, and I saw that rebounding effort. Good to see that energy.

Our players are quick, and I see no problem for them going to the rim, and getting back on offense/defense.

Hope to see improvement here.