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Rebounding

cardscott5 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:53:27 -0000

There has been a lot said about the Cards rebounding after the disappointing loss to Charlotte, so I thought I would dive right in to the rebounding stats because I have nothing to do. And I was curious to see how this team was rebounding. Before I dive too deep into this, I would like to say I got all the stats from statsheet.com.

It's very early to compare this team's rebounding to last years team's rebounding, but guess what, it's happening. Here are last years averages per game, and percentages. National rank and conference rank in parenthesis.

Total Rebound Average and Percent: 40.3 (81 National, 10 B.E) 51.4% (101,8)
Offensive Rebounds and Percent: 12.5 (98,10) 35.2% (92,9)
Defensive Rebounds and Percent: 25.2 (51,5) 67.6% (163,7)

The numbers for this years squad are as such.

Total Rebound Average and Percent: 42.1 (81,8) 52.4% (98,10)
Offensive Rebounds and Percent: 14.6 (46,6) 38.5% (54,7)
Defensive Rebounds and Percent: 25.6 (88,9) 66.3% (206,10)

The defensive rebounding percentage hasn't been that awful since the 2006-2007 season. Frankly, that is not going to cut it at all. Giving up 34% of offensive rebounds to opposing teams is going to be killer. Just on the raw offensive rebounding stats, Villanova, West Virginia, Providence, Cincinnati and Seton Hall all crash the offensive glass. Charlotte is a very good offensive rebounding team, and that's how they controlled most of the game. The 49ers missed 38 shots (36 fgs, 2 fts) and got 20 offensive rebounds. Allowing any team to collect more than half their misses is a recipe for losing.

I know what you are saying now. What about the top 6 rebounders from the past 2 seasons? I say, wait no more. It's top 6 so it could include Preston Knowles. Preston! Last year first. The percent is the percentage of rebounds they got in their minutes on the floor.

Earl Clark. 8.7 game. Off 2.757 (9%) Def 5.946 (18.7%)
Terrence Williams 8.568 game. Off 1.378 (4.5%) Def 7.189 (22.6%)
Samardo Samuels 4.892 game. Off 2.541 (11.4%) Def 2.351 (10.1%)
Terrence Jennings 2.879 game. Off 1.606 (15.1%) Def 1.273 (11.4%)
Jerry Smith 2.135 game. Off .568 (3%) Def 1.568 (7.9%)
Preston Knowles 2.054 game. Off .784 (5.2%) Def 1.27 (8.1%)

It should be noted that defensive rebounds fluctuate when you have dominant defensive rebounders. We had 2, with T-Will and E5 getting 41% of the defensive rebounds while they were on the floor. Terrence Jennings was a rebound machine at the end of last season. Here are the numbers for this year.

Samardo Samuels 6.571 game. Off 3.286 (14.4%) Def 3.286 (14.1%)
Jared Swopshire 6.143 game. Off 1.571 (7.4%) Def 4.571 (21.1%)
Rock Buckles 5 game. Off 2.143 (17.4%) Def 2.857 (22.7%)
Reginald Delk 4 game Off 1.286 (6.8%) Def 2.714 (14.2%)
Terrence Jennings 3.286 game Off 1.174 (15.4%) Def 1.571 (15.4%)
Preston Knowles 3.2 game Off 1 (4.6%) Def 2.2 (10.3%)

It's rather odd Samardo has the same amount of offensive and defensive rebounds this season. SS has also been wildly inconsistent rebounding this season. Here are his boards for all 7 games: 4, 11, 12, 5, 3, 7, 4. Is it alarming that his best rebounding games were against East Tennessee, Morgan State and Stetson? I think so. It is disappointing that his rebounding percentage is so low. With Williams and Clark gone, he has given more chances to Swop and Buckles. Some of that has to do with style of play, but it would be nice to see him hit the boards more.

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr tested positive for banned substance

cardscott5 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:07:02 -0000

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr tested positive for banned substance

Per Dan Rafel, Chavez tested positive for a diuretic before his fight with Troy Rowland. JCC could be suspended for as many as 9 months, and will be fined. If the appeal doesn't get this overturned, the fight would be changed to a no decision.
This is a pretty stupid move by JCC.

KTLA asked Manny if he wanted to fight Floyd Mayweather before his L.A concert.

cardscott5 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:51:39 -0000

KTLA asked Manny if he wanted to fight Floyd Mayweather before his L.A concert.

T-Will and Earl Clark, how are they doing in the NBA?

cardscott5 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:58:54 -0000

Glad you asked. I won't get too far into advanced stats, but I will throw out some stats right now.

Earl Clark

YR	TM	G	GS	MIN	FG	FG%	3P	3P%	FT	FT%	STL	BLK	TO	PF	OFF	DEF	TOT	AST	PTS
09-10	PHO	9	0	10.9	1.4-3.9	.371	0.0-0.0	.000	0.1-0.4	.250	0.30	0.60	1.0	0.6	0.9	1.7	2.6	0.4	3.0

The Suns are 10-2. Earl hasn't played very much, with inflated minutes in both the blowout losses being his only significant minutes this month. Earl collected a high of 10 points and 8 rebounds on 11/12 against the Lakers. For all the flack we gave Earl for shooting 3s every year, the fact he has not taken an ill advised NBA 3 should be considered a win for the Suns. The Suns play the Hornets tomorrow on TNT, so you can tune in and hope for a blow out.

Terrence Williams

	G	MIN	FGM-A	FG%	3PM-A	3P%	FTM-A	FT%	OFF	DEF	TOT	STL	BLK	TO	PF	AST	PTS
Season	11	28.7	43-130	.331	8-27	.296	12-21	.571	0.5	5.5	6.0	.36	.00	2.00	1.91	2.0	9.6

With injuries to Devin Harris and Courtney Lee, T-Will has entered the starting line up. But, numbers for T-Will are downright brutal for the 0-11 Nets. Bad enough that ESPN's player rater John Hollinger has labeled poor Terrence one of his early season disappointments. The one thing that T-Will hasn't struggled with, has been his ability to rebound. He has 3 double digit rebounding games, including back to back 12 board games against Philadelphia and Orlando. T-Will has really been struggling with his shooting, going 9-35 the past 3 games. He scored a high of 15 in the Nets season opener. Due to the Nets having an 8 man rotation in a few games, Williams has played 4 positions. There is a comprehensive write up of how he is fairing, and what his best position is, here.

Here's hoping for more success for the former Card rookies

2 million buys for Cotto-Pacquiao?

cardscott5 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:41:54 -0000

2 million buys for Cotto-Pacquiao?

Rey Colón of the ´El Vocero´ of Puerto Rico reported that the welterweight mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto generated approximately 2 million pay-per-view buys generating at least $120 million. No word on what Pacquiao´s cut will be but Cotto was mentioned to be making at least $10 million minimum.
This would be really surprising if true. Especially since Arum said around 1.5 mill earlier

Dickie V believes in us

cardscott5 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:31:44 -0000

Dickie V believes in us

Per his twitter: "Something tells me Rick Pitino n the Cardinals wwill have a big year. Rick is totally focusing on family n team. That means lots of W's."

Louisville v. West Virginia will be played at Noon November 7

cardscott5 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:45:39 -0000

Louisville v. West Virginia will be played at Noon November 7

Televised by the amazing Big East Network. There could be commercials for the Perfect Pan Brownie so that's incentive to watch

This video of Adrian Peterson running over former Card William Gay also symbolizes the way Cardinal...

cardscott5 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:37:02 -0000

This video of Adrian Peterson running over former Card William Gay also symbolizes the way Cardinal football has been plowed into the ground this season. And also we, the Card faithful, are poor William and AD is Krag running over our hopes and interest in the season.

For $25,000, T-Will will show up at your birthday party

cardscott5 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:43:40 -0000

For $25,000, T-Will will show up at your birthday party

For $25,000, the Nets are offering four courtside tickets for 10 games, parking, access to a private lounge at the Izod Center with free food and beverages and something more - a one-hour appearance by a Nets player of your choice at your home, office, school or party.

Tony Pike out vs. Louisville

cardscott5 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:26:48 -0000

Cincinnati QB Tony Pike has already been ruled out of next Saturdays game against Louisville, according to Brian Kelly. Since he is the coach, he should know. Zach Collaros, who entered during the second drive of the 3rd quarter, was 4/7 for 72 yards and 1 int against South Florida. More importantly, Collaros ran for 132 yards and both of Cincinnati's second half touchdowns. A few preliminary scouting reports I read off twitter said he was "the white UT Vince Young." And "a right handed Tim Tebow." And passed "like '08 Sam Bradford." Even with such high praise, Kelly won't decide on starting Collaros or Chazz Anderson until later in the week.