[Cracked Sidewalks] Gardner No. 1 Offensive Rebounder in the Country according to Pomeroy

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Gardner No. 1 Offensive Rebounder in the Country according to Pomeroy

Written by: noreply@blogger.com (bamamarquettefan1)

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1	Davante Gardner	Marquette	6-8	290	Jr	29.1
2	Dante Taylor	Pittsburgh	6-9	235	Sr	27.4
3	Anthony Bennett	Nevada Las Vegas	6-8	240	Fr	24.2
4	Reggie Johnson	Miami FL	6-10	292	Sr	24.0
5	Ronald Roberts	Saint Joseph's	6-8	220	Jr	23.4

Even BEFORE grabbing 8 offensive rebounds in just 22 minutes today in the 89-62 win over Mississippi State, Davante Gardner was rated as the best offensive rebounder in the country by Pomeroy (please sign on and pay your $20 subscription for the year!).

For those who haven't seen these numbers before, the rating above indicates that 29.1% of the time Marquette missed a shot in their first three games Gardner grabbed the rebound.  Last year only two players (Thomas Robinson of Kansas and Andre Roberson of Colorado) grabbed a higher percentage of misses ON DEFENSE.  Last year Jack Cooley of Notre Dame had the highest offensive percentage of any BCS conference player at 16.7% - a little over half of what Gardner did through three games.

Obviously Gardner's number will drop, but amazing to see the numbers he is putting up.

More on today's action after the conclusion of the Butler-UNC game tonight, which is helping to put last night's one-point loss in perspective.

http://www.crackedsidewalks.com/2012/11/gardner-no-1-offensive-rebounder-in.html

[AZWarrior]

Posters on this board have repeatedly pointed out that many of DG's offensive rebounds are of his own missed shots. 

I wish to point out that those are NOT missed shots.  They are actually cunningly tactical passes to himself, quite often resulting in a score.   

[TallTitan34]

On the post game show Buzz said he doesn't count offensive rebounds if they are missed shots from under five feet.

[GoldenZebra]

Regardless if they are his missed shots or not, seeing a player get offensive rebound after offensive rebound gets into the opponent's head...its good Davante is soo good at it.

[tower912]

How many are off of his own miss?

[bamamarquettefan]

The point guards in the country insist they count as misses, because if they don't then Gardner will lead the nation in assists (all to himself).

[chapman]

Well at least he follows his misses and is relentless in seeing that the ball eventually gets in the hoop.  It's not like everyone else on that list is only getting their teammates' bricks and not their own as well.

[AZWarrior]

The point guards in the country insist they count as misses, because if they don't then Gardner will lead the nation in assists (all to himself).

Yeah - but they have a conflict of interest.....   

[forgetful]

Well at least he follows his misses and is relentless in seeing that the ball eventually gets in the hoop.  It's not like everyone else on that list is only getting their teammates' bricks and not their own as well.

I just wish he showed the same aggressive attitude playing D and grabbing defensive rebounds. He's been better this year but still needs to improve.

[bilsu]

How many are off of his own miss?

He gets a lot off of his own misses, but that is the amazing part of his offense. He gets in such good shot position that he is in position to rebound his misses. It also gives a strong indication that he knows where the shot is going, if it is not going in. Instead of down grading him for it, you should be giving him credit for being able to excel at this.