There seems to be an upward trend of very high ast% teams- obviously there is a fg% impact that can be huge.  I also see TO's being generated below RL and opponent's rebounding advantage eliminated.  Why would very high ast% have this effect?  I can see how higher fg% leads to less rebound opportunities, thus lowering margin.  But I feel like some high ast% teams totally compromise rebounding and are hanging with opponents who have 150% of their TREB% on the floor.   On the bright side Vlade Divac is now a commodity.

Posted by redman27 on 6/26/2014 11:27:00 PM (view original):
Whether there are 100 rebound opportunities or 80, when a team is playing significantly less total reb% on the floor than opponents, they should still be getting outrebounded by a fair margin.  It just seems like many high ast% teams (2 stocktons, point guards at SF and even PF) have no rebounding chance on paper but tend to do pretty well over whole seasons. 

sounds good

now does that margin shrink if there are 80 rebounds as opposed to 100? yep

and in doing so does that significantly decrease (let's call it a measurable 20% just in the basic example you forwarded) the impact of the advantage implicit in the exchange? yep

and if most of your advantage exists in defensive rebounding in the first place and there are that many less defensive rebounding opportunities is it not even further de-emphasized? yep*

*(& keep in mind even weak rebounding teams tend to have a 2 to 1 advantage on the defensive boards (vs opp o-boards) so your big rebounding squad is hurt most by not getting those and the so called weak team is still benefited on their defensive end of the court)

in other words most of the 'leveraged assets' of the rebounding dominant squads are on the defensive end of the court and when hi assist/hi efficiency squads minimize defensive rebounding opportunities it tends to steal away that advantage