"People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds"

Rebecca Lobo pushes back against a scoreboard culture that equates value with points and flashy plays. She asks the audience to widen its lens: basketball is a choreography of interdependence where the stars on the ball depend on invisible labor off it. The “bigger picture” is the ecosystem, spacing, timing, communication, and trust, within which numbers are produced.

By stating she doesn’t create off the dribble, she acknowledges a limitation and transforms it into a specialization. Not every player is a shot-maker; some are force multipliers. Screens are a subtle art: the angle of the body, the patience to wait for the guard to use it, the re-screen, the slip, the legal contact that buys a shoulder’s worth of daylight. A great screen turns an average ballhandler into a playmaker. Rebounds are possession lifelines, ending an opponent’s chance or manufacturing a new one. Together, screens and boards are opportunity engines that rarely glow in a box score, yet they tilt games.

There’s a humility and clarity here that high-functioning teams prize. Knowing your role is not resignation; it’s mastery. It means studying footwork, leverage, and anticipation; absorbing contact so a teammate can breathe; sprinting into early offense to distort a defense before it sets. It means accepting that your best work might be credited to someone else, and still doing it at full throttle.

Lobo’s words also broaden to any collaborative setting. Productivity is often misattributed to the most visible contributors, while infrastructure work, maintenance, preparation, coordination, quietly sustains success. When roles are embraced and respected, a group’s output exceeds the sum of its parts.

For fans and media, it’s an invitation to watch differently. Track the screen that freed the scorer, the box-out that allowed the outlet pass, the rotation that prevented the corner three. Many of the most valuable plays don’t fit neatly into highlight reels. They show up in the flow, in the discipline, and ultimately, in wins.