Quentin Grimes had just gone on an adventure in penetration. He missed the target but Mitchell Robinson won his battle with Nikola Jokic for position under the circle. The New York pivot has thus put it back in.
A minute earlier, in the third quarter of Knicks – Nuggets, the same pivot had already managed a “tip-in” tap in front of his Denver counterpart. Over the whole game, Mitchell Robinson grabbed 7 offensive rebounds (out of 9 in total), one more than the entire opposing team…
The interior was a big contributor to his team’s total of 15 offensive catches. This raises a concern for the training opposite. ” Obviously retorts Nikola Jokic when asked if the rebound issue is a problem for the Nuggets at the moment.
” It starts with me, and then everyone collectively, we have to do better in rebounding. Because even when we made stops in defense, we didn’t take the rebound and they had easy shots. They took 15 offensive rebounds, that’s a lot. That’s 15 chances to score again “, Regrets the Serb, whose team has captured 10 fewer rebounds than the Knicks overall (33-43).
This issue is one of the characteristics of the Nuggets’ current bad run, with five losses in six games. A fairly solid team in this sector over the season – 43 rebounds captured per game (19th) and 40 conceded (1st) -, Denver does much less well on this sequence: 40 rebounds taken on average (28th) and 42 conceded (13th).
After this loss to the Knicks, Mike Malone also points the finger “ the rebound and our inability to defend without committing fouls as explanatory factors for Denver’s difficulties late in the game. “ You have to face a defense in place for 12 minutes, and then you add the loose balls. These are the three areas that have marked me the most “, develops Mike Malone.
The latter expects his team to rebound tonight on the floor of the Nets, one of the weakest teams in the league in this sector.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Nikola Jokic | 62 | 33.9 | 63.3 | 40.2 | 81.6 | 2.4 | 9.4 | 11.9 | 9.9 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 24.8 |
| Jamal Murray | 56 | 32.9 | 44.7 | 38.1 | 82.7 | 0.8 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 19.9 |
| Michael Porter, Jr. | 53 | 28.9 | 49.2 | 41.1 | 80.8 | 0.9 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 17.2 |
| Aaron Gordon | 58 | 30.1 | 58.2 | 36.7 | 61.9 | 2.4 | 4.2 | 6.7 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 16.8 |
| Bones Hyland | 42 | 19.5 | 39.9 | 37.8 | 86.6 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 12.1 |
| Kentavious Caldwell-Pope | 67 | 31.6 | 47.5 | 44.0 | 83.6 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 11.2 |
| Bruce Brown, Jr. | 69 | 28.2 | 48.0 | 36.8 | 74.0 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 2.4 | 11.0 |
| Jeff Green | 46 | 19.3 | 50.0 | 25.6 | 72.2 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 7.7 |
| Reggie Jackson | 9 | 20.1 | 29.4 | 29.7 | 75.0 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 6.3 |
| Vlatko Cancar | 51 | 15.7 | 49.0 | 40.0 | 93.8 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 5.4 |
| Zeke Nnaji | 44 | 13.3 | 57.2 | 28.9 | 66.7 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 5.1 |
| Deandre Jordan | 35 | 14.3 | 77.3 | 100.0 | 43.9 | 1.2 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 4.8 |
| Thomas Bryant | 13 | 11.9 | 45.7 | 40.0 | 72.2 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 3.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 4.4 |
| Christian Brown | 64 | 14.5 | 50.9 | 41.2 | 62.5 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 4.3 |
| Ish Smith | 36 | 9.0 | 43.6 | 33.3 | 50.0 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 2.5 |
| davon reed | 35 | 9.0 | 31.3 | 36.4 | 75.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 2.3 |
| peyton watson | 14 | 3.2 | 52.6 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.6 |
| Jack White | 16 | 3.2 | 43.8 | 37.5 | 66.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.2 |
