What the heck happened to Brook Lopez's rebounding?

I know what you mean, but its seems like the dude is a completely different player. His boards are obviously down, but even his FG % is down...

I dunno if they are forcing the issue or what

 

The injuries are obviously worse than being let on...

 

Quite a soft player, who is pretty overrated.
Go look at some NJ forums, they don't overrate him at all, would prob trade him if they could.

 

Kris humphries is actually a great rebounder on that team so he gets most of the boards, doesn't mean that lopez is doing anything wrong, him blocking out players is probably the reason why he gets so little boards, I'm guessing it's the same as in minnesota with miličić and love

 

From the little I've seen, I get the impression he thinks he doesn't have to work hard anymore because he's not a rookie.

Surprising because I didn't think Avery would allow this to go on.

5.8 rebounds is horrendous. It's really so so incredibly bad.

I can understand his FG% going down due to being a bad team, but his rebounding should be the same or up.

 

Maybe its because Avery is a terrible coach and his players tune him out.

 

Whether Avery can coach or not is not a good excuse for a 7 footer averaging 30+ minutes to only get 10 rebounds in a game twice so far this season.

 

This, kinda. While the Nets would be crazy to trade him, Brook Lopez is very overrated on this forum. Part of my problem is he never seems to play that well the few times I watch the Nets. He puts his engine in neutral quite often. With his skills and size, he would be a star just by playing hard every game.

 

I had him on the Fantasy League last year and he played big. I have him this year and he just pisses me off.

I don't know what his problem is. I know he doesn't care to much for Avery but there's no excuse for him to suck on the defensive end like he has this year. He can't rebound and he isn't even blocking shots like he did in his first two years. Whether he likes the coach or not, you have to play hard and he doesn't. No 7 footer with his skill set should have a problem grabbing 10 rebounds a game and getting at least two block shots.

Complete weak sauce on his part.

 

Johnson hates him.

 

He's soft, injury-prone, and happens to play along side Kris Humphries, who's been going hard in the paint this season.

KH grabs close to 10 boards/game.

 

He wasn't a good rebounder last year either. 21 years old, 7 feet tall, and he only had a 13.5 Reb%. For reference, 6'6 Chuck Hayes who can barely get off the ground has never had less than 15.3 Reb% in a season.

But does it matter? As a team, New Jersey is a much improved rebounding team.

 

I have a feeling people are going to make excuses for his poor rebounding his whole career. He's horrible and doesn't look like he cares to put in the effort to try and improve.

 

I have no idea why a team hired Avery after the entire Mavs roster basically quit on him.

Micromanaging know it all who is a control freak and who is always having issues with players.

 

He used to play many of his minutes next to bad rebounding Yi Jianlian. Now he's playing next to Ryan Kardashian, who has banged the board hard. Kardashian steals a few more rebounds a game from Lopez compared to Yi for sure.

 

Haven't seen those issues with the Nets this year. Even Devin Harris(no one suffered more under Avery than he did) is on board with Avery this season and is Avery's link to the players. I don't think Avery has anything to do with Brooks weak rebounding numbers. Kris Humphries has more to do with that than Avery but it's still inexcusable for Brook to only have two games with double figure rebounds.

 

Quite right. I remember one poster thinking I was nuts for saying Noah and Lopez were at the same level last year, as Lopez "is obviously a future all star and the next Tim Duncan".

I think Lopez is one of the most skilled big men in the league, however he also happens to be one of the most unathletic big men in the league. To me, this means he should always put out 100% effort on the floor as he's not talented enough to just coast on his athleticism. When he's not focused, he disappears completely because he's just too soft and slow to bang with the bang boys down low.

 

I dont know how many of you have actually watched Brook Lopez but man he does a good Yao Ming impersonation with his speed and running style. He's very fundamentally sound but he cant even come close to the athleticism of a guy like Tim Duncan. Lopez just looks really slow all the time so I'm not shocked he isnt a great rebounder.