Waiting for the Cheap Shot

[crownsy]

rondo's whipping hinrich into a table had little to do with basketball.

but i never said I thought this about the celtics, it just strikes me that everything said in that paragraph about the nuggets (i.e they are thugs, not the way the game is supposed to be played, overly physical, boring to watch, defense consists of hacking) is said pretty much verbatium what is said about us by other teams bitter fans   

[fairweatherfan]

Pau Gasol is leading all players in rebounding, pulling down 13 boards a night. The second leading rebounder is a tie between Kenyon and Nene at 8.3rpg. He's easily out-rebounding his opponent.

I thought Bynum was doing better on the backboards than he was, his numbers are disappointing, only 4.3 boards in 19 minutes. In combination with Gasol they're averaging 17.3rpg in 60.5mpg. In comparison, Nene and Martin are averaging 16.6rpg in 69.3mpg. Like I said initially, Gasol and Bynum are beating up Denver's starting big men on the backboards (almost a plus three if even out the minutes).

And I think those numbers are skewed in Denver's favour after the Lakers non-show on the backboards in game four. If you subtract game four, Kenyon is averaging only 6rpg in 36.3 minutes, and Nene 6.8rpg in 33.3 minutes. Whilst Gasol was pulling down 14rpg in 42mpg, and Bynum was fairly constant at 4rpg in 18.3mpg.

Ah - you didn't specify names in the post I replied to, and by "both players" I assumed you meant Bynum and Odom, which is who crownsy's post called "soft".  Gasol has clearly been the best low-post guy in the series, but Odom and especially Bynum have been very subpar, and that's why I didn't think it made sense to say they were hammering them on the boards and playing good D.  I still don't think you can say both players are doing it though - Gasol is doing great and Bynum has been awful, especially on D.