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Originally posted by A Pennsylvania Coach
With all due respect, there is no way that the 82% figure is correct. Perhaps it is so in boys' basketball, but in girls' varsity & JV basketball it is not. The first year after the change to crossing into the lane on the rim instead of the release, the varsity team I coached with rebounded 71% of our own free throw misses (29% defense), and rebounded just 38% of our opponents' misses.
Although this change will allow the defense to get a higher percentage of misses than in the past, it will not make the correct things enough to make up for that the old rule change from rim to release.
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You may be right about the 82% figure. I have no idea, Howard will call me if he wants to discuss it.
But I do think the new arrangement helps the defense a little. It seems from just this weekend that there were more defense rebounds. It seems reasonable, though, that the improvement would be even greater if we went to NCAA. It would also save several very inane conversations with coaches.