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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4319459, member: 12088"] It’s clear that the reason we lost to SC both times last season is that we were out rebounded significantly. The stat line shows this plain as day. Anyone looking at those games ought to agree that we need to rebound better next season. There may be a couple of ways to achieve this. On offense it may be more about shot selection and running plays efficiently than merely about grappling in the paint. On defense, grappling in the paint is bound to be a more prominent factor. But here too, an all around efficient defense that switches well can be as significant a factor as grappling. This is the inverse of the offensive principle: getting offensive boards is partly a result of getting the shots your scheme calls for. Denying an opponent the shots they want to take, making them take shots they don’t want, makes it much harder for them to get offensive rebounds. In the first game against DePaul Aneesah Morrow got lots of rebounds in part because they were able to take the shots they wanted on O and we weren’t for much of the game. In the second game, we played more efficiently on O and D and with much better energy, and as a result Morrow wasn’t a significant factor, though she still scored and rebounded respectably. The Creighton games followed a similar pattern. I take this as a fuller analysis of those games than merely saying we needed to rebound better. Something similar would be true of the SC games, and even more obviously so. [/QUOTE]

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