#40: Should the Board Man get paid!? | Rebounding 101

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🗓️ 5 January 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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How important is rebounding? And how much do rebounding stats really tell us about players today? This episode takes a deep dive into the value of rebounding, the context behind rebounding numbers and the diminishing returns involved. http://basketball-statistics.com/blog1/2009/12/06/the-diminishing-returns-of-rebounds-and-other-stats/ Pomeroy: https://theathletic.com/789794/2019/01/29/kenpom-offensive-rebounding-is-at-an-all-time-low-what-are-teams-really-missing-out-on/ Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball and get a FREE week trial at the Athletic at http://www.theathletic.com/thinkingbasketballpod --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-basketball/support

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0:00.0	How does Yale out rebound Baylor?
0:04.0	You go up and grab the ball off the rim when it comes off,
0:07.0	and then you grab it with two hands, and you come down with it
0:11.0	and that's considered a rebound.
0:12.0	So they got more of those than we did.
0:21.6	Thinking Basketball Podcast, welcome Back. My name is Ben. Happy New Year to everyone out there. I hope everyone had a safe and
0:31.0	enjoyable new year wherever you were in the world celebrating.
0:35.1	Today to kick off the New Year, I thought,
0:37.8	why not just talk about rebounding for as long as humanly possible?
0:41.5	So this is essentially the rebounding episode. I've had people ask me for
0:48.9	more detail about rebounding and I was going to kick off the new year with a story an
0:56.2	anecdote about taking care of a baby pig because that was that was wild took care of a
1:02.4	baby pig recently but I don't think we have time for that
1:05.9	this is just gotta be the ins and outs of rebounding now if you're thinking man I don't know if I can sit through a whole podcast on rebounding.
1:17.0	Well, we're going to get into some other stuff that matters a lot.
1:21.0	It gets to the crux of the game, course in terms of you know what the goal is,
1:25.5	scoring, effects of teammates on different stats and our appearance and perception of players being successful or
1:35.6	unsuccessful in their roles. We're going to talk about differences in era between
1:40.8	30 years ago with the guys talking a lot about rebounding and getting on the block
1:46.7	versus today.
1:48.3	So maybe that can wet your appetite a little bit.
1:51.4	Of course if you're on the other end of the spectrum and you're thinking, yes,
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