Watching the Marquette and Syracuse game..You talking about rebounding with a purpose..Marquette especially crashes the boards, every time they take a shot there are 2 or 3 of there players that literally go after the ball..You can tell they really take rebounding seriously, both teams..I guess because we aren't a good rebounding team I have started paying attention to it more watching these games..Rebounding can definitely make or break a team..

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I'm trying to watch the game but so far it's pretty unwatchable to me....just an ugly game so far, but I guess this is Big East bb at its finest.

Syracuse is now sending 4 players to the boards and it's paying off.

Saw the big kid from Kansas go up for a rebound with one hand, and he lost it. That is what TB does sometimes. Got to get two hands on the ball. That is basic rebounding.

Didn't we have some new fancy rebounding drill that the CA wrote about before the season that was supposed to fix all of our problems?

Syracuse plays relentless defense and play the percentage shots... If you are not a good shooting team... You are toast against Syracuse

39 pts gotta the lowest any team has scored in the Tourney

Tigers outrebounded opponents by 4 per game.

Outrebounded opponents in 22 games, were outrebounded in 13 games.

Outrebounded Louisville by 6.

Yes- there were a few games where we lost badly on the boards. but- there were several games where we dominated the boards.

MSU really outrebounded our kids- and some will cling to that.

This meme is similar to arguing that in any game we lost- the other team scored more points in those games.

Of course, rebounding even better would be great.

Our little players did the rebounding.... Remember DJ?

Pretty sure against Louisville it was DJ or a player like Geron leading the rebound battle.

Our bigs rank the lowest amongst bigs in D1. Memphis is the only team whose rebounding is inverted.....the smalls often outbound the bigs. No way to sugarcoat that. JJ should not have more defensive rebounds for the season than both Black and Shaq and almost tied w/Thomas. Pathetic

I remember hearing a couple of weeks ago that most all of the top teams in the country are also the top teams in rebounding. At every level.

Damn i'm good.

Just checked the stats and like I said, both DJ and GJ lead the team with 8 apiece. Shaq had 5, Black 2.

Pretty sure mimi knew this given she brought up that game.....too bad she didnt see the fallacy there.

Looking at another game we loss and by only two points,

Xavier owned the boards. Again, DJ and Geron lead the starters in rebounding with 12 whereas Shaq and Thomas collected 2 each. Black actually had a good game w/9 but rarely will Shaq/Black/Thomas all have decent rebounding games in the same game.

(03-30-2013 06:53 PM)CUSA_NEWS Wrote:  Damn i'm good.

Just checked the stats and like I said, both DJ and GJ lead the team with 8 apiece. Shaq had 5, Black 2.

Pretty sure mimi knew this given she brought up that game.....too bad she didnt see the fallacy there.

Also Louisville's big man Dieng(not sure of spelling) was out with broken wrist..No excuse not to outrebound them with Dieng not on the floor..

Dang, I forgot about Dieng.

Having him on the floor wouldve swing the tide in Louisville favor for sure. Good catch!

Also, just heard Duke's Curry speak on the Mich State game. He said it took 1 thru 5 to show up to beat that team and their physical play. Memphis only had 1 thru 3 show up which happens often.....too bad this wasn't a cusa game.

(03-30-2013 07:20 PM)CUSA_NEWS Wrote:  Dang, I forgot about Dieng.

Having him on the floor wouldve swing the tide in Louisville favor for sure. Good catch!

Also, just heard Duke's Curry speak on the Mich State game. He said it took 1 thru 5 to show up to beat that team and their physical play. Memphis only had 1 thru 3 show up which happens often.....too bad this wasn't a cusa game.

Seth is being modest as he scored 29 points. His hot shooting set the tempo and forced MSU out of their comfort zone.

Plus Duke played their usual 2 bigs that matched up well with Nix & Payne.

(03-30-2013 06:43 PM)CUSA_NEWS Wrote:  Our little players did the rebounding.... Remember DJ?

Pretty sure against Louisville it was DJ or a player like Geron leading the rebound battle.

Our bigs rank the lowest amongst bigs in D1. Memphis is the only team whose rebounding is inverted.....the smalls often outbound the bigs. No way to sugarcoat that. JJ should not have more defensive rebounds for the season than both Black and Shaq and almost tied w/Thomas. Pathetic

Its hardly news to say Black and Shaq have to rebound better.

Seems almost comical when someone posts it again like the rest of us don't know it already.

Evidently mimi didnt know.

(03-30-2013 05:45 PM)JacobSmiley Wrote:  Didn't we have some new fancy rebounding drill that the CA wrote about before the season that was supposed to fix all of our problems?

Actually we improved our rebounding by leaps and bounds as compared to last year.
Last year we were ranked 177 in the country with 34.4
This year we were 38th in the nation with 37.8

So that drill led to some improvement.

WSU ...that team plays with heart....great to see....great TEAM! GREAT COACH WHO COACHES THE JIMMY'S AND JOE'S!

HOPE THEY SHOCK THE WORLD! They are grit and grind college version...Hall is a man child and undersized too...ALL HEART!