Two questions about statistics

[Leander]

1) What are "unanswered points"?

2) What is a team rebound?

Please explain the two terms to me, I don't know what they exactly mean.

[End Boss]

unanswered points = points scored consecutively by one team without the other team scoring any points of their own.. if a team went on a 10-0 run you could also say that they scored 10 unanswered points

team rebound = I'm guessin ur wondering what this is in the courtside live games.. I think they display "team rebound" at the end of successful free throw makes and also when the scorer's table can't instantly attribute the rebound stat to any one player.

[Alcoholic]

Unanswered points is when they score, and you don't 'answer'. You don't score back at them.

There's 2 team rebounds I know of. One is the 'statistic' where every players rebound is added to his teams total. If Kobe gets 5 rebounds, and Mihm gets 50, they have 55 team rebounds.

The other team rebounding I know of is simply the whole team working together to get the rebound, for example point guard waiting at half court (incase they try to swat it out) and people boxing out, tipping to teammates etc etc.

[Andrew]

The "team rebound" statistic refers to plays such as the ball going over the backboard or a shot airballing out of bounds. I've also seen it attributed to missed free throws. It's a generic term for situations like that, not the whole team actually going for a rebound.

[Strike Freedom]

what about Team Fouls?

what kind of fouls are considered as team fouls?

[Null17]

total number of defensive fouls the team has made

[Leander]

Ok, thanks for the answers.

So unanswered points = streak, run.

I thought before that it could maybe mean wide open shots...so that the offensive played isn't guarded, his defender isn't close and therefore he cannot be defended, blocked, whatever...and his "unanswered"...ok, strange idea. LOL

Yes, Andrew's explaination is good. I meant his kind of team rebounds. If it clear that if Kurt Thomas has 8 rebounds and Marbury has 1, that they have 9 team rebounds...but I didn't mean the total of the individual players' rebounds but this strange number in the box score.

e.g. the rebounds of all players are added...Thomas has 9, Sweetney 7, T. Thomas 5 and so on...then, all players have e.g. 54 rebounds...but then there was always another "team rebounds"... let's say 6...and total rebounds are then 60. And I never knew what these team rebounds were. And besides, two players cannot grab a rebound together..but Andrew had the answer to the question.