BRIGGS wrote:29th in the league--only reason why Charlotte stayed in the game last night. No rebounds--no rings.

He isn't a great rebounder but with the emergence of Wil, the continued good play from Gallo and the addition of Bender --- I'd like to see us take another look at the Harrington for T Thomas deal.

Thomas would give us D, rebounding and shot blocking that Al can't and hopefully the 3 mentioned above along with Thomas could make up for Al's scoring that we'd lose.

LivingLegend wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:29th in the league--only reason why Charlotte stayed in the game last night. No rebounds--no rings.

He isn't a great rebounder but with the emergence of Wil, the continued good play from Gallo and the addition of Bender --- I'd like to see us take another look at the Harrington for T Thomas deal.

Thomas would give us D, rebounding and shot blocking that Al can't and hopefully the 3 mentioned above along with Thomas could make up for Al's scoring that we'd lose.

I think you could look into something like that--but also it's Jefferies who has commanded so much time. He has played well for a stretch but last night he had the worse +- and just doesnt rebound enough to warrant such lofty PT. He didnt score or rebound last night and while he has played very good D--the overall lack of production will catch up with playing him long minutes like it did last night. We have been able to stifle teams with the zone--we have held teams down---this has gone unnoticed and Jefferies has been a big help @ 6-11 but once teams take us more serious and scout it out--they will come up with schemes that will allow them to score more than they have been--at that point we will need some more scoring + rebounding out of JJs 30-35 position.

TheGame wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:We are having problems with rebounding because we play a lot of zone defense. It is harder to box out when you are in a zone.

That is really the issue and why most teams don't play zone defense alot. Unless you have 2-3 Lee-type players on your squad, you are going to lose alot of rebounds playing zone.

I want to disagree. Our rebound differential actual started to improve when we started to play zone.

I remember looking at our differential early in the year when we had won like 2 games, and I'm pretty sure it was -9 or thereabouts.

We're up to -5, and I'm pretty sure that has happened when we have been playing more zone.

We get killed on the boards because we launch so many 3's with 5 guys sitting at the 3pt line, and Mike likes to play a midget line up and our guys get 1. pushed around & 2. jumped over for rebounds.

franco12 wrote:

TheGame wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:We are having problems with rebounding because we play a lot of zone defense. It is harder to box out when you are in a zone.

That is really the issue and why most teams don't play zone defense alot. Unless you have 2-3 Lee-type players on your squad, you are going to lose alot of rebounds playing zone.

I want to disagree. Our rebound differential actual started to improve when we started to play zone.

I remember looking at our differential early in the year when we had won like 2 games, and I'm pretty sure it was -9 or thereabouts.

We're up to -5, and I'm pretty sure that has happened when we have been playing more zone.

We get killed on the boards because we launch so many 3's with 5 guys sitting at the 3pt line, and Mike likes to play a midget line up and our guys get 1. pushed around & 2. jumped over for rebounds.

That only explains offensive rebounding.

Defensive rebounding problems we have right now stems from our zone defense.

GodSaveTheKnicks wrote:Curry
Hill
Milicic

None of them are the answer to our rebounding woes?

they can't jack three points, so they are not a consideration.

GodSaveTheKnicks wrote:Curry
Hill
Milicic

None of them are the answer to our rebounding woes?

Fixed. Hill and Darko might be able to help with rebounding but Eddy has always been a bad rebounder.

AnubisADL wrote:Hard to rebound when 4 guys are standing around the perimeter.

pretty much