CoolBreeze44 wrote:I wonder how much we can expect Towns to improve as a rebounder. Can he get to 15 some year? Or is rebounding something that doesn't tend to improve that much?
He will probably improve a bit as he gets stronger, but typically rebounding is one of the things that doesn't change much over a career. The other issue with KAT is that he is going to exert a lot of effort on offense and play more on the perimeter as his 3-point shot comes around, so I don't see him being the type of guy that can just go all-out on the glass and put up huge numbers.
I generally agree with that. But can somebody please explain to me how Thad Young suddenly turned into Shaq this year? I'm serious. Friggin guy is averaging 9.2 boards this year. He averaged 5.1 last year with us. How does that happen?
CoolBreeze44 wrote:I wonder how much we can expect Towns to improve as a rebounder. Can he get to 15 some year? Or is rebounding something that doesn't tend to improve that much?
He will probably improve a bit as he gets stronger, but typically rebounding is one of the things that doesn't change much over a career. The other issue with KAT is that he is going to exert a lot of effort on offense and play more on the perimeter as his 3-point shot comes around, so I don't see him being the type of guy that can just go all-out on the glass and put up huge numbers.
I generally agree with that. But can somebody please explain to me how Thad Young suddenly turned into Shaq this year? I'm serious. Friggin guy is averaging 9.2 boards this year. He averaged 5.1 last year with us. How does that happen?
I have no clue, that is without question a classic outlier situation. His D-Reb % has spiked up considerably - easily a career high. It's also a classic case of a veteran that came to Minnesota and performed worse here than both his prior team or next team. I'm surprised he didn't also become a dead-eye 3-point shooter with Brooklyn....
CoolBreeze44 wrote:I wonder how much we can expect Towns to improve as a rebounder. Can he get to 15 some year? Or is rebounding something that doesn't tend to improve that much?
He will probably improve a bit as he gets stronger, but typically rebounding is one of the things that doesn't change much over a career. The other issue with KAT is that he is going to exert a lot of effort on offense and play more on the perimeter as his 3-point shot comes around, so I don't see him being the type of guy that can just go all-out on the glass and put up huge numbers.
I generally agree with that. But can somebody please explain to me how Thad Young suddenly turned into Shaq this year? I'm serious. Friggin guy is averaging 9.2 boards this year. He averaged 5.1 last year with us. How does that happen?
I have no clue, that is without question a classic outlier situation. His D-Reb % has spiked up considerably - easily a career high. It's also a classic case of a veteran that came to Minnesota and performed worse here than both his prior team or next team. I'm surprised he didn't also become a dead-eye 3-point shooter with Brooklyn....
If it makes you feel any better, Chase Budinger and Sebastian Telfair didn't exactly thrive after leaving MN...
CoolBreeze44 wrote:I wonder how much we can expect Towns to improve as a rebounder. Can he get to 15 some year? Or is rebounding something that doesn't tend to improve that much?
He will probably improve a bit as he gets stronger, but typically rebounding is one of the things that doesn't change much over a career. The other issue with KAT is that he is going to exert a lot of effort on offense and play more on the perimeter as his 3-point shot comes around, so I don't see him being the type of guy that can just go all-out on the glass and put up huge numbers.
I generally agree with that. But can somebody please explain to me how Thad Young suddenly turned into Shaq this year? I'm serious. Friggin guy is averaging 9.2 boards this year. He averaged 5.1 last year with us. How does that happen?
I have no clue, that is without question a classic outlier situation. His D-Reb % has spiked up considerably - easily a career high. It's also a classic case of a veteran that came to Minnesota and performed worse here than both his prior team or next team. I'm surprised he didn't also become a dead-eye 3-point shooter with Brooklyn....
Yep. I was thinking the same thing. I just hoping someone could pin-point something I'm missing. Then we could apply that principle to our current team and everyone would come back next year with double their career rebound rates. We'd be unstoppable.
CoolBreeze44 wrote:I wonder how much we can expect Towns to improve as a rebounder. Can he get to 15 some year? Or is rebounding something that doesn't tend to improve that much?
He will probably improve a bit as he gets stronger, but typically rebounding is one of the things that doesn't change much over a career. The other issue with KAT is that he is going to exert a lot of effort on offense and play more on the perimeter as his 3-point shot comes around, so I don't see him being the type of guy that can just go all-out on the glass and put up huge numbers.
I generally agree with that. But can somebody please explain to me how Thad Young suddenly turned into Shaq this year? I'm serious. Friggin guy is averaging 9.2 boards this year. He averaged 5.1 last year with us. How does that happen?
I have no clue, that is without question a classic outlier situation. His D-Reb % has spiked up considerably - easily a career high. It's also a classic case of a veteran that came to Minnesota and performed worse here than both his prior team or next team. I'm surprised he didn't also become a dead-eye 3-point shooter with Brooklyn....
If it makes you feel any better, Chase Budinger and Sebastian Telfair didn't exactly thrive after leaving MN...
CoolBreeze44 wrote:I wonder how much we can expect Towns to improve as a rebounder. Can he get to 15 some year? Or is rebounding something that doesn't tend to improve that much?
He will probably improve a bit as he gets stronger, but typically rebounding is one of the things that doesn't change much over a career. The other issue with KAT is that he is going to exert a lot of effort on offense and play more on the perimeter as his 3-point shot comes around, so I don't see him being the type of guy that can just go all-out on the glass and put up huge numbers.
I generally agree with that. But can somebody please explain to me how Thad Young suddenly turned into Shaq this year? I'm serious. Friggin guy is averaging 9.2 boards this year. He averaged 5.1 last year with us. How does that happen?
I have no clue, that is without question a classic outlier situation. His D-Reb % has spiked up considerably - easily a career high. It's also a classic case of a veteran that came to Minnesota and performed worse here than both his prior team or next team. I'm surprised he didn't also become a dead-eye 3-point shooter with Brooklyn....
Yep. I was thinking the same thing. I just hoping someone could pin-point something I'm missing. Then we could apply that principle to our current team and everyone would come back next year with double their career rebound rates. We'd be unstoppable.
Thad this year has stayed inside paint more so that's part of it. He is taking nearly 77.8% of his FGA from inside 10 feet of the hoop which looks like a career high. If he isn't leaking out and staying home to get rebounds that could be the other part of it. It's an interesting development I hadn't noticed until it was brought up here.
Thanks for posting Weiner. Those are some heavy averages and amazing we've had very few injuries amongst them. It's a nice luxury to only have to build a bench and not a new lineup.
