Danny notes the C's haven't been a good ORB team since they had Leon

[Roy H.]

Danny appears to be right; when Leon left after the '09 season, our rebounding took a pretty substantial hit.  I don't know if that's due to a change in philosophy, or if it's solely personnel related (replacing Powe with a perimeter player like Rasheed didn't help a lot.)

Those stats also support why Perkins was expendable and traded - you don't pay some one $10 mil for defense alone.

I don't think you can attribute team statistics to Perk.  For instance, in 2010 Perk was first on the team in total rebounding percentage, and third in offensive rebounding percentage.  Last year, in limited minutes, he was 1st in TRB% and second in ORB%. 

Perk was this team's best rebounder.  It's hard to fault him for whatever deficiencies we had in that regard.  Sure, he could have been better, but so could have everybody else.

[Chris]

Hmmm.  Starting at the 4 minute mark, Danny points out that their being so poor at offensive rebounding is a problem.  

Then he notes that they haven't been good at it partly because of personnel and that they haven't been good at been offensive rebounding since the Leon Powe era.

It seems like they need a center more than a pf if they're bringing someone in as an injury replacement, but could old friend Leon get another chance here?

http://audio.weei.com/a/52253857/danny-ainge-with-the-big-show.htm

This is kind of burying the lead.  He only talked about the rebounding after being prodded several times by Ordway.  What stood out to me was that what he felt was by far the biggest issue with the team was the offense.

I actually think he was trying to explain away the rebounding issues by pointing out that it is not something new, and that they were still able to win without being a good rebounding team.  But I think offense is his focus.