Et tu Brute
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Here, this got me curious because I was basing my claim on watching Simmons and the 76ers. The fact is Jazz dont have Mitchell do what Simmons does on rebounds. Even when Simmons is defending a 3 he crashes the boards instead of getting ready for an outlet pass like Mitchell usually does or running down the court when he is not playing PG. Mitchell never crashes for offensive boards he runs back but lets compare the two on advanced stats.
https://stats.nba.com/player/1627732/rebounds-dash/
Simmons gets 76% of his rebounds with 0 players around him so those are uncontested rebounds. That is 6.1 of his rebounds. He gets 1.7 with 1 player around and 0.1 with more than 1 player around. While Mitchells are not much better as far as contested or not, it shows that his rebounds are not impressive it just the positioning of him as a player and the how the team plays.
If you compare these numbers to actual good rebounders it is very different. Embiid is a good rebounder and a lot of his boards are contested 46%. There is a huge difference between those.
Again its great that he gets rebounds but its an empty stat. Just like Westbrooks were last year.
Ron I get why you're pissed at the homers - but Simmons was an elite rebounder throughout his career, so not buying the whole he is average thingy. He would be getting way more rebounds if he was playing the 4 - in fact one of the reasons for his rebounding drop offs was he was staying glued to the perimeter more often on defense (that is what I was noticing).