Seen some talk about how offensive rebounding isn't a strategy and one person predicted a huge fall off in offensive rebounding on the predictions thread, but thought I'd see if we all agree there.
I tend to think strategically crashing the boards is going to be part of this deal. Partially because more threes is going to mean longer rebounds but also because we're going to have the floor so spread out there should be chances for backside players to get in decent possession.
Last year Samford was a really good offensive rebounding team, not to the level that we were but they were top 40 in the country in offensive rebounding percentage at 34.7% and the years prior to that they finished #129, #194, #105, #142.
Against NW St we rebounded at a really high level at 43.6%. I doubt that anything close to that number holds but it will be interesting to track how much we attack the glass this year. Given that we're planning on picking up full court a lot more often it also makes sense that we'd commit bodies to offensive rebounds.
I tend to think strategically crashing the boards is going to be part of this deal. Partially because more threes is going to mean longer rebounds but also because we're going to have the floor so spread out there should be chances for backside players to get in decent possession.
Last year Samford was a really good offensive rebounding team, not to the level that we were but they were top 40 in the country in offensive rebounding percentage at 34.7% and the years prior to that they finished #129, #194, #105, #142.
Against NW St we rebounded at a really high level at 43.6%. I doubt that anything close to that number holds but it will be interesting to track how much we attack the glass this year. Given that we're planning on picking up full court a lot more often it also makes sense that we'd commit bodies to offensive rebounds.