Rebounding skills not important, only position?

[Leander]

I don't know if this is true but it seems to me as if the rebounding skill is not that important. You can still grab them with a player who isn't good at it...yesterday I led by 19 points with 5 minutes to go in my franchise (Nyk vs. Clippers) and the last 5 minutes, some backups played...namely:

C Lee Nailon
PF Lavor Postell
SF Frank Williams
SG Mike Penberthy
PG Howard Eisley

Three point guards in the game...and what happened? Instead of Sprewell often getting the offensvie rebound, Frank Williams pulled it down...he ended up with 4 boards in 5 minutes...the other rebounds were grabbed by Nailon or Postell....so it seems to me that it doesn't matter who is on the floor.

Kurt Thomas pulls down 11.2 RPG in 26 MPG...but what, if Frank Williams played center? I really think he would grab 10 per game then...I don't habve the time at the moment but it would be really interesting to have 5 small point guards starting and to see how many rebounds they would get.

[LoveItLive2004]

They are both important.

[Andrew]

It doesn't affect their ability to grab rebounds as such, it's just that the centre and forwards and usually the ones in the best position to get a lot of rebounds - especially the centre and power forward.

[Bill Russell]

I dunno, but I think the skills are more important than positioning.

Tonight I played a game with the Pistons, verus Memphis.

Cliff Robinson was the center for me, while Wallace was the PF. I usually assign their position according to whoever they will face on D. As Memphis' Gasol is better than Swift, Wallace got the PF.

Man, he pulled down 19 boards! I'm playing on DK's tweaked rosters, all-star (I don't like the FT on superstar), 9 minute quarters. Wallace had 10 offensive boards, all of them quite away from the ball.

Cliff had only 4 boards, playing center. Tayshaun Prince, my starting SF, had 6 boards, Rip 4 and Billups 4, too.

[bballer22]

yeh the rating dont matter, but the jump does, i gave away ben wallace just so i could have a rookie on 79 overall but 90 on his jump now he leads the leuge in rebound O and D

[Colin]

yeh the rating dont matter, but the jump does

True, that's very important. The best rebounders seem to be the athletic types (they're also the best at everything else) which is why Tim Thomas on my team is averageing 8.2 in 7 minute q's to be 2nd in the league (Wallace us first with 8.3.)