Two years of stat padding on a bad team is part of it. Part of it is because almost 1/3 of his boards were on the offensive end, playing with bad shooters and a load of loose balls away from the basket. (The Knicks shot about .450 as a team those two years.) He's not a guy who can get in and root with the giants for offensive boards - he just isn't - but he still got them. And you know that Pop doesn't let guys hawk the offensive glass anyway. He wants them to release and get back to play defense. I know all that probably sounds fishy, but there's truth in it.
Those two years with the Knicks skew the numbers a bunch. Basically, he's just about the same height as Dejuan Blair, David West, and Malik Rose. Blair was a good rebounder, West in the middle, and Malik was not good. Basically, Lee rebounds just about like West. With the exception of those two seasons several years back, his RB numbers look a lot like West's. Here's what I think is more important: in '08-'09 he averaged 16 pts and 11.7 rebounds, and the Knicks were trying go give him away and couldn't find any takers. The next year he put up 20 pts and 11.7 rebounds and the Knicks were shopping the out of him at the deadline. The biggest thing - and I said it before - was that I kept seeing that when he was getting numbers, his teams weren't going so well. If he's stuck on the deep bench, and never comes off? Who gives a damn? But then again, they could hire me to do that.
For me, his numbers are like all those years that Bonner had the best +/- in a lot of games. It didn't mean what people wanted it to mean, and more Bonner time would not have meant more wins and bigger margins.