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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5450334, member: 722"]
Donnie Freeman didn’t qualify because of his injury, but his 31.3 defensive rebounding percentage last season would have placed him third in dreb% last season. He actually would have been top50 all time with that percentage. (They’ve been tracking it since 2009.)

And it wasn’t empty “beating up cupcakes” statistics either, Freeman had great rebounding games against Texas Tech, Florida State and Notre Dame before going out with his injury.

Kyle isn’t quite the rebounder, but his job at UCLA seemed to be to block shots more than rebounding. Still, his 13.5% at UCLA wasn’t terrible, and he’s a better offensive rebounder than defensive. We’re definitely trading down on rebounding with Lampkin being replaced by Kyle.

My biggest hope in sustaining decent rebounding (and interior defense in general) is that we’ve replaced guys like Davis, Majstorovic and Lucas Taylor with guys that are taller and bouncier in Souare, Betsey, Tiefing and White.

But it all comes back to Freeman. So much rides on Freeman being healthy and excellent. On offense, defense and rebounding.

We’ve had so many hyped players come through and disappoint the last decade, we’re due for one to work out, and I think it will be Freeman this year.
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