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The stat is for the entire season and I was responding to the comment that defensive rebounding has been an issue the entire year.Then , that’s a statistic which has a poor correlation coefficient for rebounding performance. Looking at our 7 games in March, we‘ve been outrebounded in 6 of them, by margins of 49-34, 46-33, 40-30, 43-40, 46-34 and 37-32 (Nets, Sixers, Hornets [twice] and Heat [twice]. The only game that we had more rebounds than our opponent was against the Wizards.
Defensive rebound percentage is simply the percent of rebounds collected by the defensive team.
Total rebounds is impacted by the absolute number of rebounds on one side of the floor vs another. Since defensive rebound percentage is far higher than offensive a game with more rebounds on one side (due to free throw or other differences) can distort evaluation of rebounding performance.
But in the six games cited where we were outrebounded based on total rebounds we did win four of them.
Defensively we challenge the perimeter and help out more than most teams and have the #1 defensive rating (which includes defensive rebounding performance) so there will be games where we give up offensive rebounds, like last night.
I do t think we should change our defensive sets just to improve rebounding. If that's so important we should have played Kevin Love. Think his help on defensive rebounding is worth suffering his other defensive shortcomings?