“Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships." -Pat Summitt”
I was fortunate to have taller front line players during my six different stops as a high school coach. I was not so fortunate in my five years as a head JC and a small college coach. But in all situations, I found it was important to stress my rebounding philosophy all season long for us to have maximum success on the boards and to win more games.
There are several advantages to being a very good rebounding team. Here are a few I consider to be the most important:
1. Improves your defense by limiting opponents’ second chance opportunities.
2. Provides more fast break chances when limiting opponents to one shot.
3. Improves your offensive efficiency with second and third chance opportunities.
4. Draws fouls on opponents as you attempt to score inside on offensive rebounds.
5. Cold shooting “one and done” scoring droughts by opponents leads to game- breaking runs for your team.
6. Second chance put-backs keep your team from long scoring droughts.
It took me several years to put together my rebounding philosophy, find the appropriate drills, and convince myself to work on rebounding every practice. I had lots of help throughout my coaching career, mostly from some very good college coaches. What I was able to put together eventually led to my teams becoming very good at rebounding both on the offensive as well as the defensive end.
In this manual, I will share what I learned along the way and found to be successful. Whether you have size on your team, great jumpers, or shorter players who don’t get up too high, the knowledge, techniques, and drills presented will certainly help your players become better rebounders. As coach, it will be up to you to come up with a philosophy you believe in, a training schedule for implementing it , and the motivation for your players to become a great rebounding team.
-Coach Terry Battenberg
What Buyers are Saying:
"Bound for Glory was a really good read and a great reminder to myself that in order to be good at anything specific that you must practice it over and over again as well as performing the actions correctly. I know there have been times where I have taken for granted the concept of rebounding and that you have to do more than just boxing out.... this was just what I needed to read in order to break down rebounding fundamentals and concepts to our team. Coach Battenberg did a great job of explaining why rebounding is such a vital importance to a teams success and that coaching technique for offensive rebounding is just as important as showing the defense how to box out and maintain position. I will definitely be implementing a couple of his ideas as well as his Rebound and Run 5 on 5 drill." -Brett Howell
