By Brian Robb, CBS Boston
BOSTON (CBS) — Stop me if you have heard this before: The Celtics are not a good rebounding team.
It’s been evident since the first game of the regular season that cleaning up the defensive glass would be an issue for the C’s, but the Green ended up saving their least inspiring rebounding performance of the year for Sunday night. In Boston’s 106-102 Game 1 loss to the Chicago Bulls, the visitors managed to grab 20 offensive rebounds, leading to 23 second chance points.
Starting center Robin Lopez led the way with eight offensive boards for Chicago, as seven of the nine active players in Fred Hoiberg’s rotation managed to grab at least one offensive rebound in the win.