Posted by islesfan:
Posted by codeunknown:
Posted by codeunknown:
How many boards did the immortals - Nowitzki, Diop and Dampier - average for that series?
Phoenix was outrebounded by an average of 7.2 rebounds per game. Nowitzki averaged 15 boards in that series.
And? Like I already said, Nowitzki is a bad matchup for any team, even teams with players above 6-8.
That's a nice stat by itself but I'd like to see it in more of a context. How have the Suns rebounded during D'Antonio's entire time there. It would seem that a team that likes to run and gun and launch 3 pointers would be out of position to rebound more than most teams.
Would it surprise you that during that regular season, the Mavs outrebounded their opponents by 4 rebs a game and the Suns were outrebounded by their opponents by 4 rebs a game. Would it surprise you that every Mike D'Antonio team has on average been outrebounded by their opponents? Regardless of how many players they had above 6-8 in their starting lineup.
So your grand explanation is that the reason they were outrebounded is because D'Antoni wants them to shoot 3s? Isles, this is not one of your good moments. 3 pointers make for long rebounds and a
greater opportunity on the offensive boards, whether taken early or late in the shot clock.
The bottom line remains that D'Antoni's perfect personel couldn't rebound and that looms large as the cause for their loss to Dallas. Having bigger players up front would without question have improved the rebounding deficit and given them a better chance to win. Ignoring the deficiencies, both with rebounding and shot-blocking (which I hope you don't think is overrated), in their players and blaming D'Antoni for some intangible reason is not very convincing.
If anything, D'Antoni's preference for the transition game helped negate the rebounding and shot-blocking advantage of opposing teams. He should be given credit for recognizing that the best chance of success for his imperfect players was to play uptempo.
Sh-t in the popcorn to go with sh-t on the court. Its a theme show like Medieval times.
