Ruzious wrote:stevemcqueen1 wrote:Rebounding is about team-wide effort as much as anything. The Warriors rebound well as a team even when they play Draymond Green at C because they all box out and go after boards aggressively. Curry and Thompson and Barnes and Iggy all average a ton of boards for their position. Their bigs play the shot and everyone boxes out.
There is no reason that Wall and Beal and Porter can't average a ton of rebounds for their position too. The team just isn't **** playing defense of boxing out.
Because everyone wants to run nowadaze, you usually see teams not let more than 1 or 2 players go for offensive boards - everyone else sprints back on D. So, it's awfully hard for PGs, SGs, or 3's to get any offensive rebounds. And getting defensive rebounds is limited by how much you want your 1, 2 & 3 to leak out on the break. 1, 2 & 3 can help, but today's game generally puts more of an onus on your 5 and 4 to dominate the boards. When Gortat got 1 in 27 minutes, that's a bit of a shock for Wittman.
Our defenders are leaking out too early and they're ball watching and reacting passively instead of boxing out and, to quote Clark Kellogg, persistently pursuing the pumpkin.
Golden State is proof that you can play tight D and have your bigs aggressively close out on shooters, box out, let your guards and wings scoop up tons of boards, and still lead the league in pace. Bogut is a good rebounder, but not really better than Gortat. Their team as a whole just puts in a whole lot more work on D and on the glass.
And that shouldn't be the case. You can't convince me that Steph Curry, Harrison Barnes, and Klay Thompson are more naturally gifted defenders than Wall, Beal, and Porter. They just work harder night in and night out.