I’d like to see more Queta. Opposing players think twice about going into the paint with him in the game. He’s a rebounding machine, too. Grabbed 10 boards in 15mins.
He definitely had an impact as the C's once again gave up way too many offensive rebounds - but things stabilized a bit with him out there. Hopefully Joe keeps using him.
We're just not a strong offensive rebounding team - if you look at Cleaning the Glass, we only have three players that are above the 50th percentile of players in their positions when it comes to fgOR% (off rebs off FGs) and ftOR% (off rebs off FTs). Obviously the ftOR% is dependent somewhat on who we have defending the transition in the backcourt but for ORs off FGs we only have Jrue, DW and PP above 50th percentile, and they are all guards (that said Jrue and PP are both above the 90th percentile amongst other guards when it comes to offensive rebounding). Our frontcourt of Tatum and KP are both in the bottom 25% of players in their position in OR.
Much-maligned Luke Kornet is actually in the 48th percentile of centers when it comes to making offensive rebounds, and in the 43rd percentile in terms of defensive rebounds. Worse that the median for sure but acceptable I guess for a third string center? Especially when you look at him being in the top 25% of centers in terms of blocks. We all know Joe Mazz is a stats nerd, maybe that's why he keeps Luke around