Kawhi Rebounds

Some posters are more enamored with Kawhi's regular season stat line than his first round exits.

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Originally Posted by apalisoc_9

Really doesn't matter, imo.

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Originally Posted by Hoops Czar

Some posters are more enamored with Kawhi's regular season stat line than his first round exits.

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ExitS? In plural?

I guess the Spurs were eliminated in first round in Duncan Era, pre-Kawhi, too.

"B-b-u-t it's all Kawhi's fault"

Don't worry. His rebounds still look IMPRESSIVE.

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Originally Posted by YGWHI

ExitS? In plural?

I guess the Spurs were eliminated in first round in Duncan Era pre-Kawhi, too.

"B-b-u-t all it's Kawhi's fault"

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Memphis was a first round bye. I'm not going to acknowledge one of the worst playoff teams of all time a series win.

The Spurs had won four championships behind Duncan as the #1 option (I should note that prominent Spurstalk talking heads have told me on a number of occasions that two of those championships were basically all Tim Duncan with very little supporting cast - 2003, 2005) The Spurs didn't really have a number one option but he was arguably the best player on the floor. In that time, the Spurs were eliminated in the 1st round three times.... 2000 - Duncan was injured, 2009 - Duncan was gassed, 2011- fools gold

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Originally Posted by Hoops Czar

In that time, the Spurs were eliminated in the 1st round three times 2000 - Duncan was injured, 2009 - Duncan was gassed, 2011- fools gold

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It's funny because we can say a lot about the first round against Clippers, how Parker, Green, Manu, Boris underperformed, how bad Pop adjusted for Doc's high double screens, if that was the first time that Kawhi faced double-teams...and more.

But who cares. After all, it was all 23 years old kid fault, right?

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Originally Posted by Hoops Czar

Memphis was a first round bye. I'm not going to acknowledge one of the worst playoff teams of all time a series win

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^^Talking about silly comments here.

Spurs last playoffs weren't a first round exist.

"But b-u-t Memphis was so bad :cry, they can't be taken into account..." Stop trying.

He still passes the eye test as a good rebounder, though. I see him pulling down important rebounds, like in the above gif, somewhat frequently. Maybe it really is the circumstances being different. Rebounding is such a randomness-dependent thing, when you think about it...you have to just be in the right place when the ball bounces off the rim randomly (technically deterministic, but difficult to predict and thus appears random).