Rebounding issues

[Cyhig]

I think the first sentence is spot on in that Iowa State's defensive system generally makes defensive rebounding more difficult. Not just with not being in great position, but we often have smaller guys tagging rolling big men, or fully switching on to them. The guards do battle when they have to box out an opposing big man, but there is also only so much they can do.

Barttorvik notes that the defensive rebounding this season is similar to last year and Otz's second year, and significantly better than his first and third years. In conference play, Iowa State is currently 5th in the Big 12 in defensive rebounding rate. (Interestingly, that 2023 team was first in conference play in defensive rebounding rate after being pretty bad in the non-conference.)
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Man - I forgot how offensively inept those early TJ teams were. The offense has come a long way.

 

[DrClone]

Man - I forgot how offensively inept those early TJ teams were. The offense has come a long way.

Oh, I didn't. Remember it well. Good defense but no offense.

 

[flycy]

Maybe conditioning is an issue? Can’t go 30 minutes full speed on offense, defense, and rebounding. In particular, Lipsey looks like he is pacing himself (moving at 3/4 speed).

Lipsey has looked like that all year. The issue is wide open looks after double teams. Some teams can't handle the double teams, and it is very effective, others attack it. When it is being exploited, we need to just play straight up D, but we seem to always continue to try and double 30 feet from the basket.

 

[madguy30]

Just saw that we're 46th in rebound margin, which isn't great but isn't terrible. Tonight is going to be a tall task since Arizona has some monsters in that regard. Really just need to try our best to hold our own in that category and be efficient in everything else.

I would have figured way lower than that.

The microscope of fandom makes it seem like opponents have 85 rebounds/game.

 

[ClonesFTW]

We actually rebound well considering the majority of guys on our roster are “below the rim” players.

 

[Drew0311]

Apparently the team read this post today

 

[CtownCyclone]

Kind of surprised Houston is below us on rebounding.

I would not have guessed that.

 

[Erik4Cy]

finishing at the rim, it seems like our guys need to have stronger hands.

We lose control of the ball way more than most other high level teams I see out there in situations where it probably shouldn't be loose.. It's like we have tiny or greasy hands I swear, lol

 

[Drew0311]

We lose control of the ball way more than most other high level teams I see out there in situations where it probably shouldn't be loose.. It's like we have tiny or greasy hands I swear, lol

Like freshman year Melvin Ejim

 

[Erik4Cy]

Like freshman year Melvin Ejim

Yep, Big Rob Energy, lol

 

[GoSTATE71]

Actually rebounded ok tonight I thought. We do lose the ball super easily though with our bigs not bringing the ball up so some little guard will pest it away

 

[BCClone]

Man - I forgot how offensively inept those early TJ teams were. The offense has come a long way.

The offense improving is why people are looking at this team as one that should push through the sweet 16 ceiling we’ve had. Got there 2x with no offense basically.

So with an improvement in offense, does that mean our defense has slipped some if we are in that 5 place conference wise?

 

[NENick]

The offense improving is why people are looking at this team as one that should push through the sweet 16 ceiling we’ve had. Got there 2x with no offense basically.

So with an improvement in offense, does that mean our defense has slipped some if we are in that 5 place conference wise?

I thought the defense was very good last night. However, the offense reverted to the 1st couple TJ teams.