He’s playing 1.3 minutes less per game this season than last but he’s dropped almost a full rebound (0.8) per game. If there was a correlation he’d be averaging 23 rebounds per game. Let’s call it what it is, he hasn’t rebounded well this season based on his own averages. This is his worst rebound-per-minute average of his entire career. So let’s forget about comparing him to others and just admit that he isn’t living up to the standard he’s already set for himself.
I'm hoping it's just a case of DA having to re-train himself to go after the kind of rebounds that Paul and Booker usually accounted for. We also need to see a few other players help out too.
I don’t know why you’d limit him after year 4. We’ve seen bridges grow offensively and I expect more growth from him in the future. Heck, we’ve seen book grow more this year with his defense and three point shot and he’s well past year four. I suspect Ayton will continue to grow.
It's called using what you have now out of Ayton and an available baseline. I can't use something he hasn't done yet. LOL. My expectations are not out of whack. The numbers being thrown around by others established that baseline not me. I was just correlating the types of players that come along with those numbers. I made it clear I wasn't saying he is even in their league.
It's nothing personal about him. There are very few players in NBA history that have become different players after year 4 in the NBA. It's an odds things more than anything. Usually by year 4 you have a pretty good indication of who that player will be. As I stated, it's very possible he will continue make some incremental improvements. He is young enough that he can still improve. I am just not expecting anything dramatic like him becoming the most dominate force down low in the NBA.
Do you want to win the rebounding battle or the game? I'll take our trio as is, we just need to get our guards back.
This. Normally guys who end up dynamic really make dynamic changes in their games their first three or four years, making big leaps every successive year.
Yes I absolutely said that. But since you can’t really comprehend what you read, it makes sense that you equate that as it’s the ONLY reason we lost.
I'm not going to rehash the same argument simply because you either choose to not read the rest of the thread or simply don't understand it. See ya.
No, I'm leaving this interaction with you. You have a beef with me, be a man and send a PM.
Ah yeah he ain’t becoming that. He’d need a brain transplant.
No man, what’s lazy is arguing numbers when we are talking about what we actually saw. There were two instances where a rebound caromed right over a stationary Ayton to giannis where they scored second chance points. Ayton didn’t even try to box Giannis out.
