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AT's "hype"

It just seemed like last year when we needed a rebound or the other team needed it we would come out empty. I hope WE, AT, DC and SS can increase our productivity in that area. I believe last year SS and MS did all they could in terms of their ability to rebound, TW for his size really excelled and the rest of the team looked like they did not like to do the dirty work of banging and rebounding. IMHO

But they sure loved to fast break and shoot!
 
KillerB you aren't going to convince me that our 3 biggest players should average 3 rebounds/game.

To win the MVC and to actually make some kind of "splash", and to not have a repeat of the last two years....I want one person to avg. 7 rebounds/game and the other two when they get in there for 10 minutes each (or w/e it may be) to get about 3 a game, each. That's at least 13 almost double your lower expectation of 7. I'm not saying we WILL get that...I'm saying that if we want to be significantly better than last year...that's what we need.
 
FWIW....Here are last year's season totals when averaging everyone's numbers per 40 minutes:

Rebounds
11.6 - Matt Salley
10.7 - David Collins
9.2 - Sam Singh
8.9 - Rashad Austin
8.3 - Theron Wilson
7.9 - Will Egolf
4.8 - Andrew Warren
4.2 - Daniel Ruffin
4.2 - Jeremy Crouch
2.9 - Tyrone Cole-Scott
2.6 - Sam Maniscalco
 
Bradleyguy10 said:
KillerB you aren't going to convince me that our 3 biggest players should average 3 rebounds/game.

To win the MVC and to actually make some kind of "splash", and to not have a repeat of the last two years....I want one person to avg. 7 rebounds/game and the other two when they get in there for 10 minutes each (or w/e it may be) to get about 3 a game, each. That's at least 13 almost double your lower expectation of 7. I'm not saying we WILL get that...I'm saying that if we want to be significantly better than last year...that's what we need.
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Sorry.. That may be what you want, but your expectations for any those players are way too high. 7 rebounds in 20 minutes of play? Tyler Hansbrough for example, averaged 10/game (by the way 2 rebounds higher than his first 2 years) in 33 minutes of play. That averages out to about 12.1/game. Yet you think one of our players should be able to in effect average 14 per game (7/20 minutes). And I think we can all agree that Hansbrough is a little better than the guys we are putting on the floor.

And don't get me wrong, I'd love to see the guys meet your expectations. It's just not realistic and it's not going to happen. Not to mention if one of those guys turns into that big a rebounder.. the other guys are not going to see the court much.
 
Bradleyguy10 said:
KillerB you aren't going to convince me that our 3 biggest players should average 3 rebounds/game.

To win the MVC and to actually make some kind of "splash", and to not have a repeat of the last two years....I want one person to avg. 7 rebounds/game and the other two when they get in there for 10 minutes each (or w/e it may be) to get about 3 a game, each. That's at least 13 almost double your lower expectation of 7. I'm not saying we WILL get that...I'm saying that if we want to be significantly better than last year...that's what we need.
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Since I just picked Hansbrough at random.. I thought I'd check up on the top rebounder in the country last year. M. Beasley averaged 12.4 boards/game in 31.5 minutes of play. That extrapolates out to 15.7 rebounds in 40 minutes. 7 rebounds in 20 minutes.. so again you think one or our guys in pretty much going to come close to matching Beasley.

I say again.. I hope one of the players does what you want.. but I think your expectations are Pie In The Sky!
 
bugregshu said:
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So we were outrebounded 12 of our 31 regular season games
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See, it is crap like this that just shouldn't be allowed!

So Bradley out-rebounded their opponents in 19 of 31 regular season games? And that's more than 1/2?

No way!!! I don't care what the facts say... I still think Bradley has a rebounding problem and so long as we don't pay attention to this detail/stat/fundamental we'll never amount to anything.... even if we do win 21+ games in a season (only because we played more than 35 games which made it easier to get to 21+).

C'mon!!! What are these guys practicing? Why do hear they look good in practice? It doesn't translate to success on the floor.


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KillerB said:
Since I just picked Hansbrough at random.. I thought I'd check up on the top rebounder in the country last year. M. Beasley averaged 12.4 boards/game in 31.5 minutes of play. That extrapolates out to 15.7 rebounds in 40 minutes. 7 rebounds in 20 minutes.. so again you think one or our guys in pretty much going to come close to matching Beasley.

I say again.. I hope one of the players does what you want.. but I think your expectations are Pie In The Sky!
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My God! :lol:
 
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matt salley and zach andrews averaged about 7 rebounds per game last year and the year before. i can confidently say that neither of them was a great rebounder. they played 24 and 22 minutes/game respectively.
 
I think AA proves my point....maybe it because Michael Beasley plays tougher teams so it knocks him down a bit..I don't know. If he were in the valley I'm sure he'd be getting bigger "extrapolations". I see your point, but I'm just saying it...I won't be happy, and Bradley won't be squat this year if we have our 3 biggest guys averaging 3 rebounds/game. One guy at 7 for 20-30 minutes. Load the figures up but look back at the Bradley centers and their avg/game on rebounds...
 
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