If I have someone standing right in front of me, and you're 20 feet behind them, it doesn't matter if they're 6'3 or 6'6, things in the distance are smaller than they appear. Most defenders don't block passing vision with the height of their head...\ I don't see how shoulder-width affects how high you reach, but if so I don't see why it matters. In my opinion, it's easier to get leverage fighting for position if your shoulders are lower to the ground. I'd rather put my shoulder in your mid-section then in your shoulder-blades. Most of the time, strength will win out and bigs are normally stronger, but Norm isn't lacking in that department. Meanwhile, you're saying the opposite and that I "know" what you're saying is true, which isn't the case. I'm not being disingenuous like you seem to be claiming.
Yeah, coaching is the reason our starting 1-4 are all below average rebounders at their position on their career. Dame is actually okay, but expecting your PG to be a main source of rebounds is a recipe for disaster.
It’s partly coaching. There’s been multiple players, specifically non bigs, that played for Stotts, left, and saw a spike in their rebounding percentages. Trent and Crabbe for example. Stotts never believed in crashing boards with multiple players.
I don't fully agree with your premise, but even if we assume it's true: What's this team's ceiling on defense? Top 15? Maybe 10th? That still makes us an average rebounding team at best.
It's not any one thing. Definitely not a good rebounding lineup, but we can also box put better and improve that way.
I think it’s pretty obvious with Neil’s track record that our final FA get will be Millsap. It’s a pretty sad situation when I find myself praying that Beasley has some sorta massive resurrection in Summer League. How many games does this team win…. Dame/Simons CJ/McLemore/CJ2 Norm/Nas/DJJ RoCo/Millsap/Snell Nurk/Zeller ??? Zeller/Millsap/Snell have to be better defensively than Kanter/Melo
I've always believed the wingspan and standing reach argument when used to justify undersized players is a weak argument. It doesn't make much sense to me and I've played basketball. I'm 6'3 and have long arms but when I tried to guard somebody 6'7, my wingspan didn't help a bit. He was just bigger and stronger. Of course, it didn't help he was faster too
CJ/Norm/Harris/Simmons/Nurkic Suddenly we have size. And CJ at PG is a decent defender. when Nurk gets in foul trouble, you move Simmons to C and bring in Covington
