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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 126650, member: 767"]
Definitely something worth nothing, and I almost brought it up, but I didn't.  Fab doesn't need to be the top defensive rebounder on the team, but both 1) he is getting outrebounded by multiple guys on the team and 2) we aren't a good defensive rebounding team are true.

Hmm, I think on an individual level some of the more advanced statistical systems give more credit for an offensive board than defensive, because a lot of defensive rebounds are discretionary, but on a team level, I don't think it really matters, because if we aren't getting defensive boards, the other team is getting an offensive board.

I think as long as we play 2-3, we aren't going to be a good defensive rebounding team.  We're 276th in defensive rebounding this year; the year we won the title, we were 274th.  This is the 10th year Kenpom has the stats for, we've ranked 250th or worse in 8 of those 10 years.  (We were 211 last year, which was the second best we've done in the last 10 years.  I think my favorite stat is that our best defensive rebounding team, by far far far, was our worst team of that period, 2008).

We basically always allow the other team to get around 35% of our misses, that's where we are this year.  I'd like to get more, of course, but that is how it works when you play zone, so I am not going to get too worked up about our defensive rebounding on the whole.  We can win and have very good defensive teams while doing a poor job on the offensive glass.
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