There are two issues regarding height and rebounding that I saw in this thread.
The first - "How two guys with the same skill but one is much taller will be equal in a match at rebounding?"
As I see it the answer, as few wrote, is that while (some of) the taller skill is due to his height and the other is due to better reading where the ball will go (or something).
It's just doesn't matter.
Their skill is the same == They have the same chance getting the rebound.
More precisely, on each game they will (averagely) have the same amount of offensive and deffensive rebounds between them.
The second - "Why does taller players can improve faster on rebounding?"
I think this is very simple.
A taller guy can improve boxing, ball-reading and such. A smaller player cannot "get taller as fast" [or at all, of course].
In other words - better boxing for the taller guy will have greater effect than better boxing to the smaller player, as the taller player as the advantage of a better height...
I think that the misunderstanding inflicted from both questions is answered on the opposite answers.
Last edited by Pini פיני at 4/15/2011 7:54:13 PM