I have two points. it's hard for our team to get our own offensive rebound when the vast majority of our shots are going straight through the hoop. how is Haas supposed to get any rebounds when he makes 80% of his shots and the rest of our team shoots over 50% ? is he supposed to block our shots to pad his rebounding stats?
my second point is I agree with some of the posters. this is a trend and it does go back to last year. A lot of guards who bomb away on us miss and are able to rebound their missed shots. I'm not talking about just one game. I'm looking back over several years. the question is , I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. the other team is getting offensive rebounds because they are missing a lot of shots. that's a good thing. If they are making all their threes, then they are not getting rebounds, and that's a bad thing.
if you want to just look at stats, you can come away with many possible reasons and also spins/slants. We won by 30+ points and the other team had a lot of rebounds. obviously, our defense protected the bucket and prevented them from scoring.
There is one point I will disagree with. This was not our first game and should not be treated as such or called as such. this was our first NCAA regular season game. We participated in the WUG for a reason - to gain experience. to call this game our first game makes the other games we played meaningless. We also had scrimmages, secret scrimmages and exhibition games. We used those games to work on our team chemistry and to evaluate our players. Painter used the performances of those games to determine a starting line-up and also to determine that both Wheeler and Sasha should redshirt. he didn't use just one game to make that decision. if Wheeler had dominated in practice and the WUG, he probably would not be redshirting. While this may be our first regular season game, it's close to our 10th game this team has played this year. I get annoyed when people look at the first game of the season and if things go bad, say it's only the first game, give them a break. in baseball, teams play over 30 games before their first game. NFL football teams have 4 games. NBA teams have 10+ games.
My point? All those games of the WG and scrimmages and exhibitions provide enough games to evaluate this team and to see a trend developing.
me personally? if I comment about a trend, it's because I saw the flaw in previous years, and my comment will be we still haven't fixed it.
I don't see rebounding as a problem or trend. Haas is doing a great job. V Edwards is doing a great job. however the trend I've seen is a lot of teams are forcing shots against us, and those shots are so bad, the ball is bouncing back out farther than the 3 point line and the other team is getting credited with an offensive rebound. if the ball is bouncing off the rim and going beyond the 3 point line, yes, if the other team picks it up, it's counted as a rebound. But should we really be worried about that kind of rebound? to me that's like giving a relief pitcher a blown save if he allows the other team to score in the 5th inning. in other words, that stat of offense rebound is often very misleading. When you win by 30+, who cares about the stats? it's like, can I have an update on our assist to TO ratio for this game? frankly, I don't give a darn about our Assist to TO ratio. It's just one stat.
