Yes we are getting out rebounded every single game. Yes we need to address that issue. However it is not as easy as ‘just get a big body!’ Right now we are building the team with high characters young players, high basketball IQs, long arms, can pass and shoot and drive, and he needs to be able to defend multiple positions. This is Dennis Rodman with a three point shot.
There’s just no such player available in the market right now. It would take an all star package to trade for this player and it’s up to debate if we are this desperate already.
I think there’s been a concerted effort from OKC to get bigs who are a threat from the outside and who can keep the ball moving… One of the consequences of building a team like that is that even bigs who rebound well won’t be putting up the same types of rebounding numbers with OKC that they’d be able to with other teams… OKC will ask more from them offensively, and lots of the things they’ll be asked to do on offense will take them further away from the basket.