I for one am tired of our guys giving up so many damned offensive rebounds. I don’t know if they have it in them to change that. Need a monster to rebound. Our 7’r ain’t gonna do it.
Need an Alpha rebounder
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Somebody in another thread said where’s oscar?
I agree.
I agree.
We need some defenders and ball handlers too. TOs and bad D beat us today.
I was assured on this board that amari is an elite rebounder because metrics say so. So i find it weird how we almost always struggle giving up loads of offensive boards.
Also need some quickness. Need someone that can create their own shot and get to the rim
Pope will have to recruit a rebounder. No one is becoming one.
And rebounding translates all levels.
I mean real rebounding. Not getting 12 boards in high school because they are 6’10” playing against midgets.
You can see those guys that the ball “finds”.
There will be some of those in the portal too.
You won’t find an Oscar but you can find Oscarish.
If Pope wants that type of player?
We don’t really know what style or type player Pope will build with.
This team was put together on a shoestring and quickly.
The whole coaching staff too.
As disappointing as the last 2 games have been we are way ahead of schedule.
And rebounding translates all levels.
I mean real rebounding. Not getting 12 boards in high school because they are 6’10” playing against midgets.
You can see those guys that the ball “finds”.
There will be some of those in the portal too.
You won’t find an Oscar but you can find Oscarish.
If Pope wants that type of player?
We don’t really know what style or type player Pope will build with.
This team was put together on a shoestring and quickly.
The whole coaching staff too.
As disappointing as the last 2 games have been we are way ahead of schedule.
Robinson for his size is one of the worse which I think is effort based. On avg he's usually 3rd in mins and 6-8th in rebs. I mean look at nig O today grabbing 12, everyone else not great except Noah.
Defensive rebounding was actually pretty good. Vandy had 9 offensive rebounds on 42 opportunities. That’s only a 21% offensive rebound rate.
We lost because we forced only 5 turnovers and turned it over 17 times. Vandy had 12 more shots than us due to the turnover difference.
We lost because we forced only 5 turnovers and turned it over 17 times. Vandy had 12 more shots than us due to the turnover difference.
Rebounding is huge, but it wasn't THAT bad today. Rebounding: UK 40, Vandy 27.
Offensive Rebounding: UK 10, Vandy 7.
What killed us was Turnovers: Vandy 5, UK 17. Steals: Vandy 10, UK 4.
Offensive Rebounding: UK 10, Vandy 7.
What killed us was Turnovers: Vandy 5, UK 17. Steals: Vandy 10, UK 4.
We need a high energy physical enforcer in general. Of the recruits we lost in the coaching shuffle, after seeing him play, I would have actually loved seeing Somto Cyril on this team. Somebody that can come in and play 15-20 minutes, throw some weight around and make it clear to teams that our whole roster isn’t soft. We have a lot of guys 6’6”+ who play much smaller than their sizes.
Tell ya what, this Roberts kid from Houston is what I’m talking about. Kid works his butt off and has great touch around the rim.
I guess I'm just getting old- bet Rodman could still out rebound our team
Namely turnovers from the center position.
I think Williams/Garrison combined for 8 which was half our total
If we have turnovers you want them from your scorers trying to create.
This has to be fixed asap.
Because today’s basketball has a lot of 5-out, and switches, pulling your best rebounder and rim protector away from the basket. So EVERY team gives up more offensive rebounds.
But stats don’t lie in that Williams is a good rebounder. But he’s not going to get them all. But yeah he needs to do better than last game. And he’s much better at it than Garrison who is a bad rebounder.
Imagine having mostly freshmen. Even a bunch of older good players have a lot of trouble in this league. Maybe our guys can study Houston's defense since they are ranked number one in defense in the country. Watched them beat Kansas and the announcer said he has not saw a team where the bigs are trained to block out the rim and their guards go rebound the ball. They are super athletic and play hard 100% of the time. Their players do not seem to wear down like ours. They played two overtimes playing Kansas and did not use many players but was able to continue their high intensity till the very end.
Man I wish we had him this year
We didn’t appreciate how ridiculous a rebounder this guy was
A six foot 7 or 8 two hundred and twenty five pound guy is big enough to own the boards, he just has to want it. That’s one of the problems we have, our bigs are getting out worked and are out of position most of the time. We don’t have anyone else who can get a rebound when we have to have one. Pope knows this and it will addressed next year. This is the way it’s going to be this year, but it can be better than it’s been up to this point.
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