Kirk Goldsberry

And it's not as much as about strength as it used to be.

I think strength is very important here.

But I would say speed and length have entered the chat in terms of being a complete rebounder where missed corner threes, missed 30 footers.

That's a different art form than what we grew up with grabbing missed eight footers.

And the data back it up again for the first time in NBA history, more rebounds are coming off threes than twos.

Jesus.

And it's going to continue to increase.

So, yeah, it's just interesting.

If you're teaching young players to get rebounds in college basketball, you're teaching them to rebound missed threes, which is crazy.

Yeah, we did that.

I remember I did two pieces at Grantland that are relevant to this.

One was where rebounds go.

So we mapped out, you know, 100,000 rebounds and based on where the shot was.

And statistically, a lot more rebounds on corner threes go to the weak side.

Top of the key, as you alluded to, a little harder to predict.

Generally, the physics is going to take it to the other side.

But one of the more secretly viral pieces, and I think Jacoby helped with this a little bit at Grantland, was...

I wrote about the tyranny of ones and twos and pickup basketball because it was, it was taking, it was, it was, it was a perverse incentive for terrible shooters to shoot more and more.

It was the worst thing that ever happened.

And people either love this piece or hated it, but it got, I don't know how we counted it back in those days, Facebook shares or whatever, but it was like people.