We lose games on rebounds way too often for a team that still starts 2 bigs, and I always wonder why. I went on the NBA site player stats and filtered it down to just starting guards per 100 possessions to adjust for pace, and neither Mitchell or Garland were even in the top 50. They weren’t even top 50 for JUST offensive or JUST defensive rebounds either. I then went a step further and made it JUST starting guards in the East, both are still outside the top 50. What the fuck do we do?
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Out of the two games they played rebounding wasnt a issue lmao
I’m assuming you only used last year’s stats? That’s the main criticism of why you don’t want to start two undersized guards. It wouldn’t matter as much if our bigs were averaging something like 26 rpg combined, but they’re not even averaging 20, which is kind of ridiculous. Mitchell did get 8 boards last night though.
Am I the only one who thinks the rebounding angst is way overblown? We weren’t a bad rebounding team last year, and we lost to the Knicks because our offense was 💩not because of the offensive rebounding. (Even with all the offensive boards our defense was rated better against the Knicks than Miamis was)
Everyone leaks out to defend the break. No one crashes the offensive glass.
Yeah but every team probably does that because the modern NBA is all about pushing the pace. However, tip ins are still a thing you see from modern bigs. Just look at what Jokic, Wemby and AD have done in just the first two games.
wait for allen to be back to judge