If the Thunder wants to go deep in the playoffs, their effort on the glass must change.
In their return to the playoff stage, the gave up 18 offensive rebounds to the on Sunday night but still limited New Orleans to 92 points and won. It was a shaky but ultimately successful Game 1 and a fitting welcome back, when considering Oklahoma City’s defensive profile this season. The Thunder finished with the ’s fourth-best defensive rating despite the NBA ’s third-worst rebounding rate and fourth-worst defensive rebounding rate .
But by no means is that something that we’re, like, excited about. We don’t like seeing teams get 18 offensive rebounds.” That Daigneault quote is from January. But it might as well have been from Sunday night. The Pelicans bludgeoned the Thunder for 18 offensive rebounds on the glass. Valančiūnas had nine of those 18. But quickly back to the Daigneault philosophy and the way he judges their effort on the defensive glass.
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