The Detroit Pistons might be taking the idea of rebounding the ball for granted because of their center Andre Drummond’s monster effort on the glass on an almost-nightly basis.
Drummond is leading the NBA in rebounds, pulling down 15.0 boards per game, but isn’t getting much help from his teammates, mainly because of their over-reliance on him, which was expounded upon by Pistons head coach Stan Van Gundy, per Rod Beard of The Detroit News.
“They’re [Drummond’s teammates] still good rebounders but what you don’t want them to do is lose their sense of commitment on the boards. Andre may go up and grab 16 or 17 and there may be two or three you would have had on other teams. You still have to be in there; he can’t grab all of them.”
Van Gundy made this comment after the Pistons were outrebounded by the San Antonio Spurs 51-42 during a 96-93 road loss last Monday. In that game, Andre Drummond plucked down 15 rebounds. He did get help from Stanley Johnson, who had 10 boards, but Johnson mostly got those while playing as Drummond sat on the bench. Despite having Drummond, the Pistons are just 16th in the league in rebounding with 42.9 per game.
Just to further illustrate how dependent the Pistons are of Drummond for rebounds, the 24-year-old big man also paces the NBA among players with at least 16 games played in total rebounding percentage (25.6%).
At some point, the Pistons will have to lend some more help to Andre Drummond, who can’t do it all by himself.
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