So I’m thinking a little bit about rebounding, and in particular how individual rebound rate seems misleading in terms of how it relates to team success on the glass.
This occurred to me because I was looking at Karl-Anthony Towns’ stats on the peerless Basketball-Reference.com, and noticed that his defensive rebound rate is 30.1 percent, which is by some distance the highest on the team. It’s also the highest of his career, and is the seventh highest percentage in the NBA this year.
And yet. Of the Wolves four primary big men, Towns has the worst on-off difference for defensive rebounding.