I know it's only 2 games into the season and poor decision-making, a stagnant offense, inconsistent effort have already been discussed in length and rightfully so. But our lack of consistent rebounding should be a major concern. There are two trains of thought on rebounding. (1) If you are more athletic then just go get the ball. (2) If you aren't you better turn on the shot and put a body on a man block out, AND all 5 should be doing so. Our Panthers seem to be subscribing to #1. At this time there are very few teams on our schedule that we will "out-athletic." Just saying. Go Pitt.
Rebounding.
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Agree. I’ve said it a number of times but lost in the poor play of X and Trey is the poor job they did on the defensive glass today. They gave up 19 offensive rebounds. You won’t win many games with that type of performance. IMO part of that is simply desire and hustle. Today it appears they lacked that level of intensity
Rebounding with this team is a major concern. Combine that with poor defense and no effort on the defensive end, and we have what we saw today. You can have a bunch of guys who are able to score. But if they can't play defense and rebound, you will lose 9 times out of 10. And the one you won was because the other team was worse than you in defense and rebounding.
