05-22-2023, 05:38 PM
(05-22-2023, 04:23 PM)Ghost of Podkolzin Wrote: We were 30th in rebounding last year and are ready to let go our best rebounder. To ignore our rebounding woes is ignorant.
Hmm, fairly aggressively insulting, but I guess that’s what passes for discourse around here these days.
My counter would be, I suppose, that if the Mavs were truly so bad in rebounding, perhaps a “me-first” sort of rebounder like Wood isn’t the answer. Perhaps he is part of the problem, rather than the solution.
I’ll just say again: I don’t immediately assume that players who compile piles of rebounds are all that helpful in the aim to win modern basketball games. In fact, my bias almost has me leaning the other way.
Your Jokic example is a good one, because he has the ball inside pretty often, so he’s not JUST a big guy out there thinking “go get ball”…to that point, neither is Wood, and count me in the camp that believes he got less than a totally fair opportunity here, but you can’t deny that the league-wide opinion of him seems to flow in one direction, damn near exclusively.
The problem with the Mavs isn’t rebounding - it’s their inability to force opponents to create rebound opportunities by missing shots. One of those things seems infinitely more important than the other to me, but what do I know? I’m just ignorant.