Defense & Rebounding

Rotate

verbbasketball term

Moving to cover an open player or area after the defense helps, switches, or traps.

Rotations turn individual help into team defense. One player stops the immediate threat while another covers the space they left.

Used in a sentence

“The backend rotated to the rim and the corner dropped to his man.”

Also written rotation

Community slang changes over time and can mean different things in different game editions, modes and groups.

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