Originally Posted by Lee356

In watching the games, I can tell you that:

1) Amir skies about 40% higher for rebounds vs. Dyess, stats be darned. This would be relevant if guys like Gerald Green were among the leaders in rebounds.

2) Amir gets his boards just as readily against the other teams starters when they come back in for the last half of the 2nd quarter while Amir is still out there. This doesn't negate the fact that Amir only gets slightly more than 1/3 the time of McDyess, and of these meager minutes, less than half of this time is against the higher caliber players that McDyess faces.

3) In actual NBA games, we see that the guys Dyess can't guard (a very numerous group) are easily guarded by Amir. Take last nights game. His teammates all around him were scoring like fiends, and yet Dyess was minus for the game. This is because he was a doormat on defense for the other team. In contrast, Amir so totally shut down the same players Dyess could not guard that it resulted in the Clips barely being able to score at all while Amir was in the game. Thus the plus 25 for Amir. (In contrast to the minus 1 for Dyess.) Not relevant to rebounding, don't see how it serves to rebut my contention that McDyess may currently be a better rebounder than Amir.