“And scoring is easy. Just ratchet up the pace and any team can put up 110 a game. This is pretty much what basketball was like until the 90s. Games had higher scores, but FG% were lower. So this is pretty much proven by decades of basketball. It’s scoring efficiently that’s hard.”

shooting percentages actually peaked in the 80′s and started tailing off in the late 90′s.

The Bulls hyperaggressive offensive rebounding strategy actually makes it really tough for teams to get transition buckets because they have to invest so many guys to get their boards. It’s mostly something Gibson, Noah, and Asik did. Boozer is not a good offensive rebounder. They have the personnel to get away with this (no Asik anymore) strategy and they still get a positive result out of it. This is something that really only happens for the Bulls because they’re so elite at rebounding.

I did not point this out because I wanted to focus on the offense generated after the rebound.

If the offensive rebound doesn’t lead to something positive, then it is nothing more than padding stats. It’s something the Bucks should worry about, if they’re devoting players to offensive rebounding while getting points inefficiently and not getting any defensive advantages, then the rebounding is a bad thing because it will lead to the other team scoring more often than not.

And yeah, I know how Ersan rebounds, but other guys convert offensive rebounds into field goals easier. They get two hands on the ball. They keep the ball high after they come down. Like I said, the guys at the top score at the initial contact with the rebound. They have higher rates of kicking the ball out to restart the offense.

After Ersan grabs the offensive rebound, I want good things to happen. I’M SORRY FOR THAT.

And scoring is easy. Just ratchet up the pace and any team can put up 110 a game. This is pretty much what basketball was like until the 90s. Games had higher scores, but FG% were lower. So this is pretty much proven by decades of basketball. It’s scoring efficiently that’s hard.

Here’s the thing, determining whether you have good offensive rebounders that can score off of an offensive rebound efficiently can help you set your strategy. For example, the Celtics never go for offensive rebounds, instead opting to send everyone back on defense. This isn’t about getting points. It’s easy to get points in the NBA. It’s so easy to get points in the NBA that there’s no such thing as “points you wouldn’t get otherwise.” It’s about getting points efficiently. Someone scoring 44% of the time off an offensive rebound is not efficient.