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Message: [QUOTE="stamfordhusky, post: 5162758, member: 649"] Your point is well taken. A key for people to remember is that a team will get close to 75% of available defensive rebounds while it will only get closer to 25% of available offensive reboundsThus rebounding margin is very dependent on whether available rebounds are skewed towards offensive or defensive rebounds. A few simple ways to have a good rebounding margin include. 1. Make a high percentage of your shots, thus not giving your opponent any chances to get the easy defensive rebounds. 2. Turn the ball over a lot, thus not giving your opponent chances to get the easy defensive rebounds. 3. Do a good job of challenging shots and not giving up easy ones, thus creating a lot of defensive rebounds for your team. 4. Don’t ever steal the ball from your opponent. Make them shoot it so there are more available defensive rebounds for your team. Also, by not going for steals, you will be in better position to box out and get a high percentage of those defensive rebounds. Thus the only rebounding stats that are very meaningful are what percentage of available defensive rebounds a team gets, and what percentage of available offensive rebounds a team gets. In theory, they can do very well in both of those categories and yet see their opponent have a positive rebounding margin because of the factors mentioned above. [/QUOTE]