Here are the team stats -- on court/off court differences -- for defensive rebounding while each of the big men are in the game:
(1) Perkins = +4.66%
(2) Garnett = +4.48%
(3) Davis = -0.90%
(4) Scalabrine = -0.55 (includes small portion of minutes at SF)
(5) Sheed = -4.09
(6) Shelden = -6.58%
These statistics aren't perfect by any measure but I do think they point in the right direction in this case.
If you watch closely when Shelden gets a shot at playing time you'll see him fail to keep his man off the glass on several occasions and it regularly costs the team some defensive rebounds.
OK cool. I thought he was brought in for rebounding. Do those stats mean that the team is rebounding badly or Shelden is rebounding badly? Because his DRB% is 21.5% (third on the team behind KG - 25.4% and Perkins - 24.7%.Sheed =18.4%, Baby =12.1%), which would suggest he is getting most of the defensive boards.
TP for the stats though.
Do those stats mean that the team is rebounding badly or Shelden is rebounding badly?
It can mean either.
I think Shelden's individual rebounding numbers are misleading (rebounds per game, per minute and rebounding rate). Sorry, I mean his defensive rebounding is misleading. I think his offensive rebounding is very good. I think Shelden does a very good job at grabbing the rebounds but a very poor job of keeping his opponent off the glass which negates a lot of his value as a defensive rebounder.
I don't think the difference is as pronounced as those statistics indicate. I agree with
Meadowlark_Scal that Shelden's numbers would improve if given more minutes.
However, I do think the stats point us in the right direction ... and that is that while Shelden does a good job grabbing the ball the team generally does worse on the defensive backboards while he is in the game and I believe his inability to keep his man off the glass plays a large role in that.
So while I'd expect the stats to improve I would still expect him to have a negative defensive rebounding differential.
I think Perk + Garnett + Scal + BBD all do a good-to-very good-to-excellent job at keeping opponents off the glass while Shelden + Sheed are poor-to-very poor.
I don't think so. I think most of his good work at grabbing defensive rebounds is offset by his inability to keep opponents off the glass.
I think his offensive rebounding is his real strength on the backboards.
Just to go back to what I said earlier on in the thread -- I think Shelden adds a lot of value with his offensive rebounding but not much value with his defensive rebounding.
With the reason being his failure to keep opponents off the glass.
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