How was he so good at rebounding?

How was he so good at rebounding?

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is this a real quote? thats all time stupid

This sounds like a meme but unironically he wanted it more than anyone else (plus he was an athletic freak). He would go after a regular garbage time rebound as if he was playing in the final minute of game 7 in the NBA Finals. If he couldn't secure it on the first try then he would just keep tipping it to himself over and over and over until the guy he was fighting with gave up.

Lebron would be a top player regardless, but the game was more physical back then.

Why is the rebounding stat so important for Basketball fans? 70% of the time the guy is just picking a missed shot with no one contesting.

It's definitely an overrated stat, it should only count contested rebounds and offensive rebounds. The average Sup Forumsartan could collect an uncontested defensive rebound. It's literally just catching a ball.

>with no one contesting.
See, that would be where you're wrong. Try watching a little more basketball before talking about it next time.

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>The 6-8 250-265 freak athlete who made a living tucking the ball and driving to the rim would do worse in a league that allows him to be more physical
Why do nostalgianiggers only apply the parameters they want? LeBron gets to be more physical too. If some talentless hack like Lambeer kept trying to play felonball with James he would probably park his pasty ass in the fifth row until he stopped

Lebron is soft as fuck and would get destroyed on every drive, then shy away from it.

what IS a rebound?

He already gets to drive the lane like a semitrailer. The difference if he played back then would be that defenders would be allowed to do something about it.

Yeah I'm sure he'd be exactly the same if he played in a different era. LeBron would rape the league.

Yeah, people like Rodman who really exemplify the concept remind you why those cliché phrases like "They/He just want/s it a bit more" are a thing.

Defenders are more talented today. Points per 100 possessions are about the same as the mid 90s despite the huge increase in 3 point shooting.

Well he definitely wouldn't have the same kind if steroids he uses today.

People were more roided back then than ever. Look at baseball.

He would literally study tapes of his teammates for hours, and memorize which spots they liked to shoot from and even which hand was their dominant hand.
He explained in an that he would position himself in different spots depending on if it was Jordan or Pippen shooting, and if they were shooting 3 pointers or not.

Would love to see him get guarded by pippen or isaiah

He has 40 pounds on Pippen and hed torch the manlet. Who the fuck would put Isiah on LeBron? Nigga what? It was the bigs who mauled Jordan.

>Late 80s early 90s
>Steroid era
You stupid fucking leaf you're off by a decade. The late 80s-early 90s was still the cocaine era

Thought we were talking late 90s

Try actually playing the game, you fucking mongs before you go on how easy it is.

Why? That's not prime Jordan or Rodman.

It's not easy in a street game because your playing with tryhard and untalented people that try to go for every rebound. But in a NBA game players know that they can't try to go after every missed shot because it will be much more easier for the opponent to pick the ball, and because you will let an adversary player unguarded.

A rebound = an opportunity for your team to score.

How can you not rate that?

Since 2010, only two players have had 30+ rebounds in a game. Kevin Love and Andrew Bynum. Dennis Rodman had five 30+ rebound games in his career.

That doesn't mean Lebron could adapt to a more physical defense

Why would you assume he couldn't? He's a physical specimen and a relatively good shooter

He did it in a dead all era too. Look at rebound percentage, it's him and swen nater, some low sample size Dutch guy (who played against rodman in practice all the time early in career). No one else is close. Some things:
- 6-8 with length, quick jumper
- beastly strength far out of proportion to already good size, like legendarily strong amongst NBA players. Allowed him to arrive at a spot late and lock a guy up in position with his legs, then jump first to get ball
- as said earlier he studied rebounding like some study shooting or offensive movements
- talent: don't discount natural talent for a thing. Wayne Gretzky admitted things just came to him in regards to finding openings in hockey, rodman had something he called "the radar", he thought he could feel the balls trajectory ahead of others, and he might have been able to
- desire: it's still very real, just look at what AC Milan is doing under a new coach (a famously fiery former player), ditto with Atletico Madrid for years now. Rodman went full bite every night in a league where most guys got by on talent and saved it for the playoffs. He's an interesting read in this regard, his autobiography talks about a hellishly poor childhood, leading to
- crazy: lots of driven guys are at their core crazy. Rodman was legendarily crazy in a league where three hundred odd guys fight for a spot covered by millions, it already selects for insane people... Rodman was so weird pro athlete teammates would be afraid to sit next to him on the bus.

He was a perfect storm of attributes for rebounding, and happens to be my favorite player. In 1994 I believe, ibm did a thing like a precursor to today's analytics called the "most winning player" or something like that. Rodman won the league title over Jordan for the player most mathematically likely to contribute wins to a team.

ive always wondered
do you get 4 rebounds for that

Yeah no think about the extent they Wre being used in Pro Wrestling and extrapolate that outwards you dickhead.

based dennis

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just one. one missed shot results in one possible rebound. there is a clerk at the scorekeeping table who tracks them.

effort, toughness, and freakiness

Rebounds as pure numbers is garbage but Rodman was elite in actually meaningful stats like % of rebound and % of offensive rebound. There are arguments to be made that Rodman was more valuable to his teams than Jordan was.

Rodman was v cool

Obviously it's just one

the rebound closes the defensive possession, or extends an offensive possession. important stuff.

He's right about LeFLOP you know

>he doesn't know that if you control rebounds you control the game

>Rodman was more valuable to his teams than Jordan was
Know how I know you're 14 and never watched those Bulls?

When do we get an elite Japanese player in the NBA?

>If LeBron was playing in an iso-heavy era without memechucking he'd be average
>If a physical freak of nature was playing when the game was more physical he'd be average
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He'd still be a great player but when driving in an iso heavy era you get trapped a lot more. He also already drives to the hoop easily, getting 40 stitches from Malone would stop that. Lebron's own defense would be more elite.