Bosh Averaging 6 Rebounds In His Last 25 Games

[richboy]

Yeah its embarrassing. Lebron should not have to lead the Heat in rebounds. Remember Bosh actually rebounds the offensive glass pretty decently. Meaning he must be getting less than 1 defensive rebound a quarter. Which is bad but Amare would love those numbers.

Amare Stoudemire is averaging 3 rebounds a game in 20 minutes since his return. 1 of those rebounds is on the offensive glass. Meaning he is getting 2 defensive rebounds every 20 minutes. But it is even worse than that. He has a total of 25 rebounds since he has returned. 8 of those rebounds came in 1 game. He has had 4 games of 1 defensive rebound. Two more games of two. Take away the 8 rebound game and Steve Novak a better defensive rebounder.

[Ito]

Yeah its embarrassing. Lebron should not have to lead the Heat in rebounds. Remember Bosh actually rebounds the offensive glass pretty decently. Meaning he must be getting less than 1 defensive rebound a quarter. Which is bad but Amare would love those numbers.

Amare Stoudemire is averaging 3 rebounds a game in 20 minutes since his return. 1 of those rebounds is on the offensive glass. Meaning he is getting 2 defensive rebounds every 20 minutes. But it is even worse than that. He has a total of 25 rebounds since he has returned. 8 of those rebounds came in 1 game. He has had 4 games of 1 defensive rebound. Two more games of two. Take away the 8 rebound game and Steve Novak a better defensive rebounder.

Why is that? Lebron is the best rebounder of his position.. Its between Lebron and Haslem who should be leading the heat in rebounds.. with Lebron getting the edge because he plays more minutes, and he's Lebron.. Lebron is good enough to lead his team in all major stats..

6 seems a lil low, but if he would average 7... JUST 1 MORE.. it would look much better because he's playing along side Lebron, and even Wade is a good rebounder... But Bosh rebound numbers are only important because the heat as a team get out rebounded all the time, but it's not Bosh's fault.. its a team effort, maybe they all should be averaging at least 1 more per game

[va-mos]

Including 5 rpg in the month of January, absolutely pitiful..........and it's some mystery why the Heat need rebounding?

And Boozer averaging 23ppg and 12rpg in his last 10 games.

[richboy]

Yeah its embarrassing. Lebron should not have to lead the Heat in rebounds. Remember Bosh actually rebounds the offensive glass pretty decently. Meaning he must be getting less than 1 defensive rebound a quarter. Which is bad but Amare would love those numbers.

Amare Stoudemire is averaging 3 rebounds a game in 20 minutes since his return. 1 of those rebounds is on the offensive glass. Meaning he is getting 2 defensive rebounds every 20 minutes. But it is even worse than that. He has a total of 25 rebounds since he has returned. 8 of those rebounds came in 1 game. He has had 4 games of 1 defensive rebound. Two more games of two. Take away the 8 rebound game and Steve Novak a better defensive rebounder.

Why is that? Lebron is the best rebounder of his position.. Its between Lebron and Haslem who should be leading the heat in rebounds.. with Lebron getting the edge because he plays more minutes, and he's Lebron.. Lebron is good enough to lead his team in all major stats..

6 seems a lil low, but if he would average 7... JUST 1 MORE.. it would look much better because he's playing along side Lebron, and even Wade is a good rebounder... But Bosh rebound numbers are only important because the heat as a team get out rebounded all the time, but it's not Bosh's fault.. its a team effort, maybe they all should be averaging at least 1 more per game

What Lebron gets is irrelevant. You want to be a great team no reason why he can't be a 9 to 10 rebound per game player like he was in Toronto. Them getting out rebounded means there are available rebounds. Miami is a much better defensive team than what he had in Toronto so more missed shots. Yet somehow he is getting worse on the glass.

[Forever_Bulls]

Have Bosh on my fantasy team....yea, it blows my mind

[ferk]

So he's improved

[tsherkin]

So yeah, the Heat are a bad rebounding team and Bosh is a part of that. They are the worst offensive rebounding team in the league and an unimpressive, poor defensive rebounding team as well.

Bosh's having his best year yet as a member of the Heat in terms of ORB%. 7.6% is not good, but he's still doing better than he has in years past. He's blowing donkey dong on the defensive boards, though, at under 18% DRB and he's playing a lot at the 5, which makes it even worse. He's a problem there, and always has been because he's a 4 and not a 5. He doesn't have the requisite muscle and he's even slowing down a little. He's trying to balance out this issue by having a fine season on the offensive end, but yeah, he's struggling a LOT on the boards, below his career averages in ORB/DRB/TRB.

So there isn't really a defense for his inadequacy, it's just that he sucks. He's struggling to hit the boards even more so than he has typically done. In Toronto, he wasn't a horrible rebounder for a 4 (actually pretty decent), but he was a poor rebounder for a 5 most seasons and has historically performed rather poorly there.

Other culprits?

They don't play him a ton but Joel Anthony. A fine offensive rebounder and a total waste of skin on the defensive glass. Haslem isn't particularly good on the offensive boards, though he's played well on the defensive glass. Lebron is currently rocking over 20% DRB, so about what Bosh was doing the past two years (and near to Bosh's career average), floating the team. Rashard Lewis obviously can't rebound worth a damn, he's played nearly as much as Joel Anthony. Shane Battier rebounds as well as Mario Chalmers.

Ray Allen and Wade are obviously pulling their weight on the boards.

But that's it, Bosh is the sinkhole. Haslem and Anthony don't play a lot of minutes, and if Ray, Lebron and Wade are pulling their weight on the boards, then unless you expect Mo Chalmers to be leading the charge on the glass from the point, it kind of falls on Bosh's shoulders... where he's notably under-performing. He's never been an elite rebounder and he's never been really good as a center, he was always a PF. Running him at the 5 is a systemic issue. They'd be a lot better off with any number of different players filling the role Bosh is currently playing. He was always the weakest link on that team, ITO the starters.

[tsherkin]

I should add for TL;DR's sake...

Miami is bad enough on the boards as a team that there are available rebounds which Bosh is not getting. Lebron's quality as a rebounder, and likewise Wade's, is in no way stopping Bosh from being good on the boards (notably so on the offensive end). I can forgive a little his offensive rebounding because he's not Kevin Love and does indeed spend a lot of his time around the elbow or above, which means he's not battling for awesome offensive rebounding position, and he isn't built like a moose, so he can't carve space like a Reggie Evans or something. Dirk isn't a lot different in that regard, and even less athletic. So we can be happy with 7%+ ORB as long as we realize that they need it from someplace else.

It's the defensive boards, where the Heat are also struggling, which are most damning for Bosh.

[TwentyOne920]

It's pretty damning that Brook Lopez (who's not the best defensive rebounder, although he's a good guy at boxing out and some of the pressure is taken off of him by playing alongside Reggie Evans) has a better defensive rebounding season than Bosh...

[Durant 35]

It needs to improve if they want to repeat...as their role players aren't as good as they were last season.

[tsherkin]

It's pretty damning that Brook Lopez (who's not the best defensive rebounder, although he's a good guy at boxing out and some of the pressure is taken off of him by playing alongside Reggie Evans) has a better defensive rebounding season than Bosh...

By about 1.2% DRB, yep. Lopez has been as good as Bosh's career average or worse to date in his career on the defensive boards. They're roughly the same in that regard, but at least BroPez hits the offensive boards pretty well. This year, he's roughly replicating his rookie-season offensive rebounding, which is nice to see.

[taii1234]

Hes going through a slump, he will be fine.


Also I find it funny how everyone fails to remember that the Heat were NEVER a good rebounding team after the big 3 joined up. They were ranked 21st in RPG last year when they won the championship.


The Heat specialty isn't rebounding, its playing defense and causing turnovers that lead to fast point scoring.

[Durant 35]

Hes going through a slump, he will be fine.


Also I find it funny how everyone fails to remember that the Heat were NEVER a good rebounding team after the big 3 joined up. They were ranked 21st in RPG last year when they won the championship.


The Heat specialty isn't rebounding, its playing defense and causing turnovers that lead to fast point scoring.

Problem is they have been trash most of the year even defensively.

[taii1234]

Hes going through a slump, he will be fine.


Also I find it funny how everyone fails to remember that the Heat were NEVER a good rebounding team after the big 3 joined up. They were ranked 21st in RPG last year when they won the championship.


The Heat specialty isn't rebounding, its playing defense and causing turnovers that lead to fast point scoring.

Problem is they have been trash most of the year even defensively.

They haven;t been trash, they're in 1st place in the East. The only reason there defense is bad is because Ray Allen is getting more playing time than Mike Miller and Joel Anthony. Mike Miller also gets them rebounds.

[Durant 35]

Hes going through a slump, he will be fine.


Also I find it funny how everyone fails to remember that the Heat were NEVER a good rebounding team after the big 3 joined up. They were ranked 21st in RPG last year when they won the championship.


The Heat specialty isn't rebounding, its playing defense and causing turnovers that lead to fast point scoring.

Problem is they have been trash most of the year even defensively.

They haven;t been trash, they're in 1st place in the East. The only reason there defense is bad is because Ray Allen is getting more playing time than Mike Miller and Joel Anthony. Mike Miller also gets them rebounds.

I'm talking defensively. They are in a good position and the fact they play in the east is a big reason why. They will pick it up but how much and will it be enough? Lebron was god like last year in the playoffs. Are their role players good enough and can wade play like he did last season?