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It was stuff you sort of knew, but it is interesting to see the stuff presented in nice info graphics, and yes, long shots do make for long rebounds, but maybe not as much as you'd expect.
http://grantland.com/features/how-rebounds-work/
For years, basketball coaches and players have meditated on rebounding. When shots go up, players begin fighting for position. The very idea of boxing out involves putting yourself in an optimal position to catch a potential miss by clearing out space in the zone where a rebound is most likely to be had. However, since most missed shots necessarily involve the ball ricocheting off some combination of iron and glass, there’s no way to predict exactly where rebounds will go. Because of this, even the best rebounding intelligence is still informal.
This is where that new player tracking system comes in.
The league’s tracking system not only logs locations for every missed shot, it also charts the locations of their subsequent rebounds. In turn, we can map out the spatial relationships between shot locations and rebound locations with unprecedented depth and clarity. We can uncover the fundamental facts about rebounding that until very recently have been impossible to get to.
http://grantland.com/features/how-rebounds-work/
For years, basketball coaches and players have meditated on rebounding. When shots go up, players begin fighting for position. The very idea of boxing out involves putting yourself in an optimal position to catch a potential miss by clearing out space in the zone where a rebound is most likely to be had. However, since most missed shots necessarily involve the ball ricocheting off some combination of iron and glass, there’s no way to predict exactly where rebounds will go. Because of this, even the best rebounding intelligence is still informal.
This is where that new player tracking system comes in.
The league’s tracking system not only logs locations for every missed shot, it also charts the locations of their subsequent rebounds. In turn, we can map out the spatial relationships between shot locations and rebound locations with unprecedented depth and clarity. We can uncover the fundamental facts about rebounding that until very recently have been impossible to get to.