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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4320324, member: 12088"] [USER=5823]@CocoHusky[/USER] is right that defensive rebounding is essential to the transition game. This is the key to easy shots. I don’t quite follow the analysis of matchup rebounding, and I’m not sure it’s a meaningful statistic. Often boxing out your matchup allows someone else on your team to get the rebound. Do we have a stat on box-out rebounds? But [USER=6986]@HopJim[/USER] is probably thinking that offensive rebounds are inversely related to better shooting. Here too the statistics may not help much, but the broader facts show that champions are not always the best rebounding teams. It seems to depend on how you build your team, and this depends on who you can recruit. It looks like Geno has been trying to build a good rebounding team but lost key rebounding prospects in recent years. In interviews over the last two years, he seemed mainly complained, in this order, about: 1) Playing poor D, 2) Poor shooting 3) Poor defensive rebounding 4) Missed layups I think this reflects both concerns. And I am struck by the fact that he doesn’t complain about offensive rebounding, unless it’s the other team’s. Here, too, I try to think of the bigger picture. Rebounding is partly a function of shot selection, namely getting the shot we want on offense and not letting the opponent get the shot they want. A team that executes well tends to rebound well on both ends. And transition scoring depends essentially on defensive execution. We want them to take a forced off balance shot so we’re in a better position to rebound a ball they’re not ready for. From this perspective it becomes clear that great guard play is a huge factor in effective rebounding. It’s not that the guards have to get the rebounds. They just have to prevent easy shots from the midrange and beyond and prevent easy passes into the paint. Something similar will be true of offensive rebounds. [/QUOTE]

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