The Importance of Rebounding in Basketball

“The one who controls the rebound controls the game”

 

If you ever watch slam dunk anime series until the end then I'm sure already knew the meaning of that quote. If you don't know or you just forgot, It’s the quotable quotes that Takenori Akagi gave to Hanamichi Sakuragi for him to think that rebound is an important part of basketball and it's very crucial for a team to win games. This quote really helps Sakuragi to realized that his rebounding skill can be the main key for them to win. But let’s get back to reality in playing basketball, does rebounding really one of the most important thing in basketball? If your still new in playing basketball then here are the reasons that I just read and learned in my basketball experience about why rebounding serves an important role in winning basketball games.

• Being good in rebounding the ball can give your team more opportunities to shoot while you also able to lessen your opposing team to score. Because being skilled in rebound can give your team more possessions in the ball which means a more chance for your team to score.

• Being skilled in rebounding can help improve your team’s scoring percentage, Just like an offensive rebound are a put-backs score from a close in. Also getting fast defensive rebounds with the help of great pass can lead your team in a fast break opportunity to score. This really makes your team improve and get better in scoring percentage.

• Great rebounding can give your team lots of free throw opportunity because it will make the other team get trouble inside the feint area especially if your good team are good at boxing out, which will make them really frustrated to get the ball and will cause them to make a loose ball foul.

• Rebounding skill is actually a combination of offense and defense and can totally lead you to win basketball games.

Rebound is totally a big part of basketball. At first when I play basketball I just always practice my skill in shooting and dribbling but never got interested to improve my skill in rebound. But now I learn that being great in rebounding is an important key too for you to win games in basketball. So if your playing basketball and you think your not good in shooting the ball or dribbling the ball, maybe its time for you to start improving your skill in rebounding because you should always remember that  “The one who controls the rebound controls the game”.

Aomine Daiki

If you already started watching Kuroko No Basket in anime and you want some spoiler, then it’s okay for you to continue reading this post but if you don’t want some spoiler then don’t read this post at all LOL!.

Daiki Aomine is one of the Five Generation of Miracles that mention in the series and he is the first light of kuroko tetsuya before Taiga Kagami. He is the former ace player of Teiko middle school basketball team which mean we can say that he is the top player among Generation of Miracles. Aomine is now the ace player of Too Gakuen High the first team who beat the team of tetsuya kuroko and kagami’s Seirin High. He is a good friend of Tetsuya Kuroko before because they both love to play basketball so much but later Aomine change his attitude in basketball that’s why Tetsuya decided to leave Teiko’s Basketball Team later in Championship Finals when they are in middle school. He was third member of Generation of Miracles that revealed in the series after Kise and Midorima.

 

Aomine’s personality is somehow complicated because at first as Tetsuya mentioned, he was a happy person before who love to play basketball so much and always smile while playing it. But Aomine became stronger and stronger every day while playing basketball, his improvement is very fast compare to his teammates because he is really a genius in basketball because of that he came to the point that he destroyed every teams opponent’s will to play because of how good he is when they play with him, That’s why he started to feel sad and feel bored in basketball because he can’t find any player and team to match with him and or a good rival that will makes him to play all out. He got tired of waiting and searching of some worthy opponent and he realized that he is simply the strongest and started to believed that “The only one who can defeat him, is only himself” and then he became very arrogant until he met Taiga Kagami later in the series.

 

If your wondering of how good he really is in playing basketball, I will say he is totally a beast! I can compare him to Slamdunk’s character Kaede Rukawa or Eiji Sawakita or maybe much better than them. He’s playing style is very unpredictable, he can play any position, His abilities can be described as extremely fast, extremely strong and extremely skillful. He got many weird shot that you don’t think will fall in basket. It is said that Aomine never has a non-changing movement, be it passing, dribbling or shooting. His play is described as limitless.

I won’t tell anything more about him here in this post, maybe you should watch Kuroko No Basket and wait him in anime or you can read it in manga. I’m sure you will enjoy it when you see it, Kuroko No Basket is really a great basketball series, no doubt about it.

The Phantom Sixth Man ( Tetsuya Kuroko Of Kuroko No basket )

To someone here who is an avid  fan of Slamdunk series, I just want you to check out this manga series that I just discovered recently, the title of this series is "Kuroko no Basket" also known as Kuroko's Basketball. It's is a japanese manga series written by Tadatoshi Fujimaki, started on December 2008. It's about a high school basketball team trying to make it to nationals winter cup finals.

In the beginning of the series, the chapter will tell us about the basketball team of  Teikou Midde HighSchool who just easily wins all the basketball competition that they join. The five regulars on this team is became known as the "Generation Miracles" of japan because of their high level of skill and talent that they possessed in basketball. After graduating from middle school, these five genius star went to different high schools with top basketball teams. However, a fact and very few have known is that it should be actually six and not only just five member of Generation of Miracles.  This guy is also skilled and also a genius like them, he is the phantom sixth player  and his name is Tetsuya Kuroko. This five member of generation miracles respect Kuroko Tetsuya too much as well fear of  him. This mysterious player attends the Seirin Highschool and decided to beat all the member of Generation Miracles.

To Anime and Basketball Fanatic

To someone who don't know anything about this anime or manga series but you're an avid fan of basketball and anime. I really highly recommend this series for you, it's a manga series written by Takehiko Inoue it's about a basketball team from shohoku high school. It was serialized from japan from 1990 to 1996 and had also been adapted into an anime series. It's very popular in japan and many other asian countries as well as europe.

 

The series centers around the life of the main character named Hanamichi Sakuragi. He's a deliquent young high school student who is good for nothing other than fighting. Sakuragi is a hopeless romantic guy who already got rejected 50th times by every girl. He then met Haruko Akagi whom he fell in love with immediately. Haruko is the one who encouraged Sakuragi to join the basketball team. On that team Sakuragi met his team captain Takenori akagi who is also the older brother of haruko and kaede rukawa  a very popular and talented player and also a freshman like sakuragi whom he really think as his greatest rival in basketball and for the love of Haruko, later in the series he also met his other great teammate ryota miyagi a very fast and skilled point guard and Hisashi Mitsui a former mvp and a great three point specialist.

There so many great things about this series because it's really full of fun and epic moments. It's imposible for you to not even make a single laugh just by seeing this series, Especially Hanamichi Sakuragi who always think and very proud that his a great Basketball Genius but actually at first he's only a beginner who know nothing about basketball and almost every people in this series called him an idiot! :D

But the most exciting part about this series is the way how Hanamichi Sakuragi grow as a great player little by little because of his hard work and his endless determination. This series is definitely inspiring, it's all about friendship, hardwork, dream, team work, leadership and many more. It is also one of the reason I got more addicted into basketball. I hope you try this series because for me it's really one of the best series i've ever seen. :)