Watching Utah / USC with What a long strange trip it’s been Walton doing color.
BW made an interesting observation about rebounding, describing it as horizontal jumping rather that vertical jumping. I’ve never considered this, but it sort of makes sense.
Regardless of my apparently mistimed post,I still find his observation novel.
One of the (many) reasons that I absolutely love Sampson’s system is that it emphasizes rebounding, defense, and protecting the ball (his “trinity”). When I played, those were my (only) strengths. I prided myself on tough D and tenacious rebounding. Sort of a slow, nonathletic, poor shooting Justin Gorham.