A rebound is produced by bouncing (hitting) against a surface.
Bounce is the action and result of bouncing . This verb can refer to bouncing ( chopping ) a ball or other body on a surface or to something that causes something in motion to change its direction due to hitting some obstacle.
For example: “The Argentine striker controlled the ball after the rebound off the post and managed to score his team's fourth goal” , “The man fell from the fifth floor and, after a rebound against a stonemason, ended up in the middle of the street” , “Pau Gasol finished the game with 28 points and 14 rebounds” .
Rebounds in basketball
In the field of basketball , the concept of rebounding is very important. A rebound occurs when the ball hits the rim or the backboard , leaving it in dispute between the players of both teams. The player who manages to capture the ball at that time therefore wins the rebound.
Within this sporting field, we can say that there are fundamentally two types of rebounds:
- The offensive ones , which are the ones that a player manages to recover for his team when he is attacking, which means that the ball does not change possession.
- The defensive ones, which are those that occur when the defending team achieves possession after the rival misses the shot at the basket that it has made.
Rebounding is usually in the hands of the tallest players, although jumping ability and sense of direction are also important. Rebounds, like points , assists, steals and other actions, are recorded in the statistics .
Rebounds are very important in basketball.
Its importance
In basketball games, the number of rebounds each team has achieved plays a fundamental role in victory. Precisely for this reason the role of players specialized in this task has been praised. Specifically, among the best in that sense in the history of the aforementioned sport, we can highlight the following:
- Bill Russell (1934-2022), who achieved an average total of 20 rebounds per game. He won the gold medal with the American team at the Melbourne Olympics (1956) and was a player for the Boston Celtics .
- Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999). He played for the Los Angeles Lakers and San Francisco Warriors and is considered one of the 50 best players in NBA history. He has the record of being the one who has achieved the most rebounds in a season, 2149, and the one who has achieved the most in a single game, 55.
- Bob Pettit (1932). Along with the previous two, he is on the podium of the three best rebounders of all time by average. He played for the Milwaukee Hawks and the St. Louis Hawks , where he averaged 16.2 rebounds per game.
rebound effect
What happens when a reaction occurs that is contrary to what one expects or what a certain action should produce is known as the rebound effect .
If a person follows a certain diet to lose weight, loses five kilograms and, at the end of the diet, ends up gaining ten kilos, a rebound effect will have occurred.