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Scoop Snoop

Quote from: Goose on December 12, 2021, 08:51:31 AM
Couple things caught my eye sitting courtside last night, #1 the UCLA guys were bigger abd stronger than our guys by a wide margin, and #2 our guys get way too antsy and often take themselves out of rebounding position.

I think they are expecting someone to get the rebound and are getting ready to move the ball up court. At the moment, they are a very poor rebounding team and it has hurt them in almost every game.

One other observation, Kur and Omax are big time athletes for their size. They are going to carry a team but think they will have more and more impact in the upcoming games.

Yep.

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"Well, I thought you were going to get it." Not my job!"
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Miss Katie’s

Quote from: We R Final Four on December 12, 2021, 08:41:40 AM
Yes BLM....I fear we struggle with this all year.
I have listened to SS's pressers after each game and I have yet to hear him mention it. The fumbling, the poor positioning, the subsequent fouls, etc. which lead to open look 3s will kill us. It must be addressed.

I can't count the number of times I've said "two hands!" already this season. 

MU82

We have one player who consistently blocks out his man -- Oso. Much of the time, others just jump in the direction of the ball or watch others jump.

It's been the biggest disappointment to me this season from a coaching perspective. By now, more guys (which means all guys) should be finding a body, boxing out and attacking the ball.

And one thing's for sure ... we cannot afford to ever have guards leak out in the hope of getting outlet passes. Those passes will never arrive because we aren't securing rebounds. Our guards have to hit the defensive boards.

All 5 Marquette players on the floor need to be committed to grabbing every defensive rebound.

Obviously, there will be rebounds they won't get because of the way the ball bounces or because of an opponent's individual effort/talent; there was one put-back last night where the UCLA shooter fired a brick that barely hit the bottom of the rim and the rebound went right into the hands of a teammate, who scored. That happens sometimes.

But all 5 MU players have to be committed to defensive rebounding, and I don't see that yet. Lots of poor rebounding fundamentals, too. That's partly a talent thing, sure, but it's also a coaching/culture thing.
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MarquetteDano

Blocking out still poor.

What I did notice is UCLA was often crashing 4 guys on the off boards with Campbell the lone guy back.  If teams consistently do that we need to burn these teams in transition. OMax did it once and someone else did too.

If this is going to stay a weakness we need to at least get some transition buckets when we get a board.

Mr. Nielsen

Quote from: We R Final Four on December 12, 2021, 08:41:40 AM
Yes BLM....I fear we struggle with this all year.
I have listened to SS's pressers after each game and I have yet to hear him mention it. The fumbling, the poor positioning, the subsequent fouls, etc. which lead to open look 3s will kill us. It must be addressed.
Shaka was talking about rebounding with Homer right away last night.
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Stretchdeltsig

Quote from: Goose on December 12, 2021, 08:51:31 AM
Couple things caught my eye sitting courtside last night, #1 the UCLA guys were bigger abd stronger than our guys by a wide margin, and #2 our guys get way too antsy and often take themselves out of rebounding position.

I think they are expecting someone to get the rebound and are getting ready to move the ball up court. At the moment, they are a very poor rebounding team and it has hurt them in almost every game.

One other observation, Kur and Omax are big time athletes for their size. They are going to carry a team but think they will have more and more impact in the upcoming games.

Agree. We nerd to recruit mature dominant tough big players to compete in the big east. We can't recruit talented skinny kids.

JakeBarnes

Quote from: Stretchdeltsig on December 12, 2021, 05:18:11 PM
Agree. We nerd to recruit mature dominant tough big players to compete in the big east. We can't recruit talented skinny kids.

Oso was a talented skinny kid. He's our best rebounder
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Stretchdeltsig

Hate typos. Sorry. But we need mature dominant players to compete.

The Sultan

Quote from: Stretchdeltsig on December 12, 2021, 05:45:59 PM
Hate typos. Sorry. But we need mature dominant players to compete.

Way to go out on a limb with that one.
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wadesworld

Aren't going to win many games rebounding like this. It's one thing when it's a long rebound and you're just in the wrong spot. We just fumble balls everywhere.

mileskishnish72

BLM, you could just repeat your OP and it would still be true.

wadesworld

Maybe we will win games when we rebound like this.  47-26 on the boards.  Yikes.  But a W.

CTWarrior

Quote from: BLM on January 15, 2022, 12:34:55 PM
Aren't going to win many games rebounding like this. It's one thing when it's a long rebound and you're just in the wrong spot. We just fumble balls everywhere.
This.  Besides just getting beat to position too often, I don't know how many times we had position today and just didn't grab the damn ball when it was ours for the grabbing.
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MuggsyB

I think it's all of the above.

Poor fundamentals

Poor tenacity

Poor hands

Poor anticipation

Poor sticktuitiveness


mug644

Quote from: MuggsyB on January 15, 2022, 01:31:16 PM
I think it's all of the above.

Poor fundamentals

Poor tenacity

Poor hands

Poor anticipation

Poor sticktuitiveness

Add in team strategy to have fast transitions, so guys turning and heading up court quickly.

Daniel

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Quote from: mug644 on January 15, 2022, 01:33:42 PM
Add in team strategy to have fast transitions, so guys turning and heading up court quickly.

Yes the heading up court quickly always puzzles me since we don't have the ball yet - and have a history of not getting the rebounds.   Crash the bards and secure the ball.  Then, we stop them from scoring by them getting the rebound and we might score.    Loo

Uncle Rico

Quote from: mug644 on January 15, 2022, 01:33:42 PM
Add in team strategy to have fast transitions, so guys turning and heading up court quickly.

Yuuuuuup
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mileskishnish72

And 19-7 on offensive boards. Would like to see the stats on second-chance points.

That will wear a team down in the long run.

Its DJOver

Rebounding always looks worse when looking at the stat sheet afterwards.  Don't get me wrong, we're not good, but when looking at the -21, you also have to consider the +10 TO margin.  As frequently as we're minus in boards we're plus in TOs.
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Quote from: ATL MU Warrior on February 06, 2025, 06:04:29 PMthe stats bear that out, but

Daniel

It is hard to imagine winning a game where you are out rebounded 47-26.  But.....

PGsHeroes32

Quote from: Daniel on January 15, 2022, 01:52:00 PM
It is hard to imagine winning a game where you are out rebounded 47-26.  But.....

Kinda being the norm.

I think Illinois was worse
Lazar picking up where the BIG 3 left off....

Daniel

Quote from: PGsHeroes32 on January 15, 2022, 01:52:46 PM
Kinda being the norm.

I think Illinois was worse

True.   Can we imagine how good we would be if we just rebounded evenly?   If they figure this out could mean a lot more points for MU and fewer points for opponent.   Would be sweet!   But who knows......

Goose

When Fluff has educated y'all on the ball call he will teach everyone a rebounding lesson at 5:00pm CST.

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