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Call me naive but I think rebounds have value. If you don't that's fine, I won't try to convince you otherwise.I wouldn’t care if they stopped counting rebounds or only counted contested rebounds. Does it really matter who happens to grab the ball when there are 3 Cavs around and everyone on the other team is getting back on D? Does it really matter if Drummond gets 4 boards on one possession because he’s incapable of making a point blank shot? I’d rather they count box outs if all things were equal, but rebounds are an easily quantifiable stat so that’s why it’s counted. But just because it’s easy to quantify doesn’t mean it has value.
Drummond, whose name you brought up, led the league in rebounding four years in a row if I'm not mistaken. This year he's making $28 million. I think there's a connection.
By the way, rebounding your own missed shot and scoring has a value of two points more than a player who misses his shot and doesn't rebound it.
Maybe when players are so wide open that their shots are uncontested we shouldn't count those points on their stat sheets - only the contested shots. Same for making technical free throws - since the player wasn't fouled the point shouldn't count on his stats.
How about they only get 2.5 points for corner threes since they're closer and easier to make than 3's from the angle or straight on? And uncontested dunks definitely should not count on the player's scoring average.