Text-Number: 0106E
Available: 15/08/1996
Category: SportsNumber of characters: 1129
Author: Steve Miller
Written: 13/08/1996
Abbreviation (when applicable): CW
Title: The Rebound
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Steve Miller

The Rebound

Idealization of rebound experts in the NBA gives rebound to a special trait in american way of life. Rebound experts, like Dennis Rodman, are the special type of youngster that wins recognition of society by reacting as fast as nobody else. He has no chance, but he makes use of it. He is allways on the lurk to fetch what anybody else has dropped - and than to score from the rebound. He is bound up with the fact that he has no aims himself and so at least he is aiming to please. That is his goal. His spirit of contradiction corresponds to his contradictious character. He is a rebel. But it is a rebellion against the arrogations of those who always come first. He is the hero of those who always run second. Each second of the game he is the secondary of secondariness. But playing this role, he is brilliant. Dennis Rodman's book - to take him on the rebounds - will be rebound in Germany this autumn. For all rebounds in Germany (and those soon to come always second, and, as we learned during the Olympic Games, therefore as losers) it will serve as a vademecum of successful secondariness.