The best rebound grabber, Keegan Murray

gunks

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#9
Best rebounder you have another person in team. Anyway, Keegan really improved on rebounding and boxing out.
Haha yeah. Odd timing to make that declaration after Domas grabs himself 20.

Keegan the best "tap outter" for sure though! I swear he's getting us a couple extra possessions a game with those! Totally agree about his improvement on the glass in general too!
 

Capt. Factorial

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#11
Keegan’s sudden emergence as a capable rebounder about halfway into his rookie season was pretty cool to see happen. A bunch of us were complaining, he was getting outrebounded by guards of his class, I think he got gently called out by coaches and BOOM. The switch went off and he just became a good rebounder basically overnight.
He was a great rebounder in college (about 15.5 per 100 possessions, compared to 10.3 per 100 possessions this year) so I imagine that he was trying to learn how to be a wing instead of a F/C and just thought he wasn't supposed to crash the boards as hard in favor of getting up the court. Once the switch flipped his rebounding ability was obvious.
 
#15
What if you tap it out and your teammate who catches it immediately launch a 3 that goes in?
I’m not 100 percent sure but from what I can tell the tap is considered a rebound, not a pass, so no assist awarded.

Once a player taps a ball to a teammate it doesn’t become a rebound until that teammate takes possession of the ball. So it makes sense that no assist is given.
 

hrdboild

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#17
I’m not 100 percent sure but from what I can tell the tap is considered a rebound, not a pass, so no assist awarded.

Once a player taps a ball to a teammate it doesn’t become a rebound until that teammate takes possession of the ball. So it makes sense that no assist is given.
So what you're saying is we need a new stat for "Rebound Assists" which I guess goes to whichever teammate ultimately corrals the tapped ball?