Celtics Rebounding Philosophy

[Donoghus]

I said this a couple of weeks ago but I'll reiterate.

I really think "rebounding woes" with this team is being overblown and its not my largest concern with them. 

[pearljammer10]

The more shots you make the less you are going to rebound... Im not worried about the Celtics rebounds.

[Jon]

As others have said, I don't care too much about our offensive rebounding.  Doc has made it clear that he values getting back on defense more and who is to argue given the success of the past 3 years. 

I am a little concerned about the offensive rebounding we're giving up (hence, our defensive rebounding); however, let's wait to see how we do with KG, BBD, Shaq, Perk, and Erden all healthy for the time being. 

The simple fact of the matter is that we've been playing a lot of this season with undersized lineups.  Let's see how we do when we're not rocking a lineup of Rondo, Nate, Daniels, Pierce, and BBD for portions of the game. 

[Meadowlark_Scal]

You can't just turn rebounding on...it is like anything else, you have to get good at it. It is a lot of work, anticipation, position, muscle, technique, and more..! So, if you feel you don't HAVE to go for them on the offensive end, you won't feel the need on D either, if it pops in your hands, fine..but why work for it, save my energy for my O...that is what starts to happen. Then you control nothing, and that is why the celts show such big lapses.

    Doc is a guard, with total guard mentality in a bad way....KG runs this team mostly, don't believe me, what happened the last 2 years, this one and last when kg was out....we fell apart....Rebounds break the other team down, 2nd chances to score more, control the game. No rebound for the other team, no fast break...only hard-way points.

   You can also tell how doc feels about rebounds, he ditched Leon Powe, Lasme, sheldon, all rebounders 1st. Asks nothing from bbd. How did we lose to the fakers, after the hack-fest that doc did nothing about, rebounds. Doc just sat there like a girl letting kobe and artest beat up our guys, first perk, then ray, then rondo.....all of our best at their positions, jacksons plan, if you cannot beat them, take them out. Answer, chess game, they take perk, we take kobe out. they did it. you must match aggression with aggression, intensity, the refs are not going to save you.....neither will the league. They saw what the lakers did, the world saw it....

[Meadowlark_Scal]

We won the championship with Leon cleaning up the glass, giving us second chance points, you'll never win anything just shooting...look at the wizards and dallas, two great shooting teams....leon grabbed those rebounds and dunked them home, got fouled, got them into foul trouble, sank his free throws. Rebounding does more than reset...it gets the other team into foul trouble, causes infighting, makes the shooters life easier, no more double teams, frees the perimeter...you'll go no where without rebounds, don't kid yourself..!!!

[xmuscularghandix]

I said this a couple of weeks ago but I'll reiterate.

I really think "rebounding woes" with this team is being overblown and its not my largest concern with them. 

Agree. If Boston sends more people to the offensive glass then they aren't one of the top in the NBA for transition defense.

It's more of just concentrating of your matchup, Glen Davis has to attack the defensive boards and put a body on his man. Paul Pierce has to attack the defensive glass when certain units are in the game. Don't just assume that somebody will just sky up and grab it, do the dirty work.

[LB3533]

The harping on rebounding is overstated.

We were up 13 points with 8 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter of Game 7 and the Lakers already had 18 offensive rebounds.

They had 5 offensive rebounds after that mark which resulted in 6 points.

We should have still won Game 7 by 7 points, but we choked away our lead again like we had all season last year.

[Fafnir]

The harping on rebounding is overstated.

We were up 13 points with 8 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter of Game 7 and the Lakers already had 18 offensive rebounds.

They had 5 offensive rebounds after that mark which resulted in 6 points.

We should have still won Game 7 by 7 points, but we choked away our lead again like we had all season last year.

If they hadn't grabbed 18 at that point we'd have been up 25. Also they didn't get many offensive boards in the fourth because they started making shots after that point.

[LB3533]

The harping on rebounding is overstated.

We were up 13 points with 8 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter of Game 7 and the Lakers already had 18 offensive rebounds.

They had 5 offensive rebounds after that mark which resulted in 6 points.

We should have still won Game 7 by 7 points, but we choked away our lead again like we had all season last year.

If they hadn't grabbed 18 at that point we'd have been up 25. Also they didn't get many offensive boards in the fourth because they started making shots after that point.

I see where you're going with this, but everything that had happened to that point already happened and you couldn't change that.

What could have happened and what could have been in our control was how we closed the game out and we didn't do that on our offensive and defensive end.

The Lakers made 6 FGs in the 4th quarter (27 total for the game), that is ONE less than the average of 7 made FGs in the first 3 quarters.

They were 6-16 in the 4th quarter and won the game because we got lazy on defense OR because the refs didn't allow us to play defense like we had been playing the first 3 quarters. We sent the Lakers to the FT line 17 times in the 4th quarter.

[Roy H.]

The harping on rebounding is overstated.

We were up 13 points with 8 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter of Game 7 and the Lakers already had 18 offensive rebounds.

They had 5 offensive rebounds after that mark which resulted in 6 points.

We should have still won Game 7 by 7 points, but we choked away our lead again like we had all season last year.

If they hadn't grabbed 18 at that point we'd have been up 25. Also they didn't get many offensive boards in the fourth because they started making shots after that point.

Agreed.  The Lakers got 17 points off of offensive rebounds, and three fouls on Rasheed in a game where he fouled out.  Our failure on the boards obviously played a pretty substantial role in that loss.

[vinnie]

I think someone else already posted this here, but to repeat: the problem seems to be they are also slipping pretty rapidly rebounding on the defensive end. That is a realy problem. I really don't care about offensive rebounds for the Celts, but they are getting fewer and fewer on the defensive end. If in the end, you don't rebound on either end, you have a real issue.