Hilarious fact - Bargnani is the worst rebounding big guy ever!

I understand the offensive rebounds being on the low end because he plays out on the perimeter, but his defensive rebounding rate is kind of embarrassing for a big guy.

 

Effort; he doesn't have any. Don't forget this guy was #1 overall. He isn't Kwame or Olowakandi, but he isn't far from it either.

 

They say it's because he plays the 3, but even a 6'7" SF should grab more rebounds than he does.

 

That's a BS excuse. Lamar Odom plays the 3 a lot and definitely boards more than that.

 

Lol epic failure

 

This isn't news

Always been a ****ty help defender and absolutely embarrassing defender

And just so you know, he was drafted at center lol

 

The guy drafted right after him?

LaMarcus Aldridge.

#AdvanceScouting

 

The most important stat: 3 games.
Bargs is coming off injuries. He was injured last year, he was injured for most of the training camp.

He should get back to his typical 5-6 rebounds per game.
It's still embarrassing, but he's still a solid player overall. E.g., would you take Troy Murphy (14-12 in his prime, 0.475 %) or Bargnani (21-5, .450%). Stats wise, the choice would seem Murphy or close. But to me, Bargnani would be the easy choice. His rebounding is terrible, but Bargnani overall is not.

 

It's hard to get a rebound when you always stand outside the 3 point arc.

 

BC had his Euro fetish back in the day picking up Garbajosa, Calderon, Bargnani, Anthony Parker (from euro league).

 

well. you kind of repeated my last sentence right there.

 

because you didn't read past the 1st sentence, i assumed.

 

Troy Murphy plays plenty on the perimeter, too. As does Kevin Love now. Still getting double digit boards. His comparative of Dirk Nowitzki outside shooting euro soft on the boards, his career low RPG is as good as Bargnani's career BEST.

It does make you go "hmmm"

It is possible for the PG to "steal" rebounds from their big guys. Think of Steve Francis with the Rockets. No Maurice Taylor was NOT a glass eater, though it always seemed the Rockets bigs never got those high rebounding averages you associate with bigs. (And then it might be just half a board or 1 per game "stolen" from a guy, not 2 or 3)

But its probably a passive approach by Bargnani of "since Lowry's taking initiative to rebound, then they're his".

Overall, Bargnani can average over 5 rbs a game going by career numbers. I don't think he'll be "content" with 2 rbs a game I'm sure he'll pick it up. But he still makes Brook Lopez look like Ben Wallace

 

Troy Murphy was a defensive rebounder, so it didn't matter how many jumpers he took. But he didn't defend at all, which is part of why he got those boards. He would leave his man open to take jumpers or do whatever else he wanted and just went after each defensive board.

Bargnani's rebounding sucks. If it didn't, he'd be an All Star. His D has been ok lately, and his offense (while one dimensional) has always been good.

I just wanted to give some perspective. This whole thread kind of lacks it (from calling Bargnani a center, to focusing on a 3 game sample, to pretty strong predictions later on).

 

Durant is a perimeter player too and he's averaging 15 right now