After 6 games, we're ranked #23 in rebounding as a team. The statistic is a little bit misleading because it counts the total number of boards. For a team that plays lower scoring games you figure there are less shot attempts and less opportunites to accumulate rebounds.
Now if you look at rebounding differential, we are ranked #10. We average a little more than 1 board per game than our opponenet.
Last night against CHI was the first game were beaten badly on the glass (43-31) and I think that was a big reason why CHI was able to make a comeback. Note that CHI is ranked #2 in rebounding differential.
Once SON comes back and JON is at 100% we should be much better. The past few games has seen a lot of Baby and KG as the frontline, and that was considered our small lineup last year that didn't fare too well. But I think another factor is KG appears to be much more healthy this year. He's already had a 15 rebound game and is just about averaging a double double. You can see that he is comfortably dunking from 4-5 feet out when last year he sometimes had trouble from 1-2 feet out.
We're not going to be the best rebounding team this year, but it's not going to be our Achilles heel either.
It's also hurt by the fact that our defensive scheme takes away from our offensive rebounding opportunity's.
I like the system, that you favor getting back on defense over crashing the glass if your not in the paint when the shot goes up, and it certainly limits the other teams ability to score in transition.
Still annoying at times though. That's why players like Baby and even semih are so valuable, they tend to live in the paint and at least give us SOME sort of rebounding threat.
