Kalif young to providence

[Litehouse]

My mind keeps coming back to Luke, trying to figure out why he's not a better defensive rebounder.

He let Henry have all the easy ones.

[barfolomew]

He let Henry have all the easy ones.

[Marcus92]

Wojo never worked with Okafor.  He was already here.

Oops. Meant Jabari.

[forgetful]

Luke had almost as many offensive rebounds (100) as defensive (103) last year. With more experience and strength, I think he has the potential to improve his defensive rebounding. Obviously, that should be a big part of his focus this summer.

Our defensive rebounding strategy was to have Luke clear out for whoever was playing the 3 and 4 positions.  It wasn't his job to get the rebound but to take away the other teams rebounder.  That is why he had low defensive rebounding stats but high offensive rebounding.

Henry was a big beneficiary of Luke's clearing out. 

Bottom line is Luke is a much better rebounder than his stats last year say; and Henry was not as good a rebounder as his stats indicate. 

We won't be a great rebounding team next year, but we'll be fine.  I expect a big rebounding year from JJJ and figure Luke (depending on team strategy) may likely average a double double.

[MU82]

I am in the camp of those who say part of the reason Luke wasn't a better defensive rebounder was he had to slide over often to help when an offensive player drove past our guards.

If our guards and wings do a better job of keeping their men in front of them, it will add a few rebounds per game to Luke's total.

Easier said than done, of course.