Our offensive rebounding should be better

[Palatine]

I first noticed it in the Seton Hall game. Neither AD or AO get good offensive rebounding position.

Alex is completely lost but AD should be inside on every shot. Just his size should put him in position for second chance points. Love to see JC work on fixing that.

 

[imno1]

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I first noticed it in the Seton Hall game. Neither AD or AO get good offensive rebounding position.

Alex is completely lost but AD should be inside on every shot. Just his size should put him in position for second chance points. Love to see JC work on fixing that.

Also our guards don't rebound like they did last year. Every long bound goes to the opposition.

 

[uchusky32]

Hell, we can't even think about offensive rebounds if we can't keep a small team like ND from getting over 12 offensive boards or more!

 

[freescooter]

Agree with this. Drummond reminds me of the Lego sets my kids got when they were young. You'd open the box and there woudl be all the pieces to make a pirate ship or something. You could see they were all there, you could see what the thing would look like, but until you got all the pieces together, it really wasn't anything. Sometimes someone would put a couple of the pieces in place, all the brown ones for the hull for example, and you'd say, wow, htis is gonna be great. But without the yellows for the deck and the whiles for the sails, it still wasn't all there. That's Drummond. You can see the pieces. Sometimes he puts some of them together, and you say "Wow!" but he still hasn't got everything together and one of the things he doesn't get is offensive rebounding. He's too good not to play, and the thought that he will put it all together at some point is too tempting not to leave him out there. But he just hasn't been able to do it so far.

 

[UChusky916]

The whole team, overall, is not very good at reading the ball coming off of the rim.

Kemba had a terrific 6th sense for this and I think thats why he is such a good rebounding guard.

 

[James]

^ we underrate Kemba's board crashing ability. It was real. he averaged more boards than AO does this year. Forget the 3, the 4 is our most egregious position, I think Scoe should play more at the 4. As far as Drummond, he averages 8 boards a game, would you be more satisfied with 12-15? maybe through in 20 ppg? more blocks too?