Competitive Rebounding Drills

Teaching rebounding can be a tough area to teach.  Teaching rebounding out out of a man set than teaching rebounding out a zone set.  Teaching rebounding out of a zone set can be different than teaching it out out rotational concept. Therefore, we are going to explore some different rebounding philosophies.  Hopefully, you can find something that fits your philosophy to the game.

Competitive Rebounding Drills

Andrew Gantz Rebounding

Skip Prossor Rebounding Drills

Triangle Rebounding

Here is a great rebounding drill for you to add to your drill book.  It emphasizes a bunch of fundamentals involved in rebounding. As always, it appealed to me because it is intense, game like, involves multiple players and competitive.

Triangle Rebounding

Julie Folks: Defensive Rebounding

If you are looking for some good defensive rebounding techniques and drills, you should check out this resource from Julie Folks. Coach Folks stresses these rebounding fundamentals in all of her drills.

1. Call Shot (communicate!!)

2. Meet face to face with contact

* Send a message

* Low center of gravity

3. Punch through & catch

4. Box out

5. Go get the ball

Julie Folks: Defensive Rebounding

Bruce Weber: 4 vs. 3 Scramble Drill

I am a huge fan of disadvantage drills, so I really took a liking to Bruce Weber's 4 vs. 3 scramble drill. This particular drill is a great change-up for teaching rebounding.

Bruce Weber: 4 vs. 3 Scramble Drill

Fundamental Drills Playbook

I was looking through some stuff that I have received from various coaches over the past few years.  I was noticing that there is just a ton of different drills out there that focus on fundamental play.  Being a person who loves drills, I thought I would select some drills that I found interesting and compile them all into 1 resource. 

The thing to remember though is that you shouldn't use a drill if it does reinforce your system of play.  To many times coaches will use a drill because it looks good.  Often, if I see a drill that I like, I ask myself the following questions simple questions:

1.  Will the way the drill is set up reinforce how we teach our players?  If not, is there a way that it can be modified to meet our needs?

2.  Is the drill intense? 

3.  Is the drill competitive (scoring or time based)?  If not, can it be made competitive?

4. How long does the drill last?

5. How many players does it engage?

Fundamental Drills Playbook

Skip Prossor: Rebouding Drills

If you are looking for some new rebouding drills, you will want to check out these notes on rebounding drills from Skip Prossor.  Lots of good ideas in here for you to check out.

Skip Prossor Rebounding Drills

Purdue Drills

Here is a collection of Purdue drills. I am not sure which Purdue team or who was the head coach at the time when these were used, however.  Either way, there are still a bunch of good drill ideas for us all to incorporate into our own systems.

Purdue Drills