Rebound Positioning

[Kelvin green]

The reason you see it as a developing trend is because there are :

1) too many officials who do not watch for this because they arent watching off ball

2) just not calling it...


I had a game the other day and the ball went up on a three point shot, the defensive kid down low had two hands in the back of the offensive low post player and gave him a good push.

I hated calling a 3 point basket good and then giving the team that just scored the ball. However as soon as I blew the whistle the offesnse was screaming did you see the push!

Duh why did my whistle go off? But if I had not called it I know it would have escalated at the other end and been worse.

If it is a minor bump opposite the rebound you may use ad/disad but when in doubt. CALL IT!