Rebounding and Resilience: The Power of Offensive Play in Women’s Basketball

Miss, rebound, miss rebound, miss rebound. You know who’s not getting their own offensive rebounds? Perimeter shooters. So someone who’s shooting more in the paint, right? Getting more layups, more close to the basket shots. Um, if they’re good basketball players who need to make up for their offensive liabilities, uh, they get the rebound. They just keep trying to get the rebound. The clip being used there is her going up against the best woman playing basketball alive right now. I don’t know if you guys know who Asia Wilson is, but that’s who’s defending her, and she still managed to continue to rebound her own shot. It’s happened so much in the NBA, and I don’t like comparing the WNBA to the NBA all the time, but, like, Giannis was like 41% from the fields in his rookie year. I think he averaged like one offensive rebound a game. Um, and he’s gotten better as a shooter and a score every single year. Um, and everybody said, like, he has to get better, and he did. Um, but like, the really condescending, snarky way people talk about Angel Reese is as if it’s, like, different for women playing basketball. Um, and really, the different thing is that Angel Reese is really good at rebounding, and so she’s rebounding her own misses, which is, like, kind of what you want from somebody at her position who’s not hitting their shots. So, I don’t know, you guys just seem miserable.