Dean leads Baker in every adjusted rebounding category (adjusted for minutes played). Particularly when you limit the stats to conference games. And a lot of Baker’s rebounds are uncontested rebounds where the opponent has essentially conceded the rebound and started going back on defense. He get easily knocked off his spot on contested rebounds.

When Baker is scoring like he was in the games leading up to yesterday it opens LSU’s offense up and makes them very efficient. When he’s not, he’s a liability. Yesterday the officials were allowing physical play. That style fit Dean and you saw it when LSU went to the ball-side screen and roll with Wright over and over again in the second half.

John Sundvold said it best yesterday. Dean is a “quick leaper”. Often the guy who makes the play around the rim is not necessarily the most athletic, but the guy who gets off the floor first. Baker, on the other hand, takes FOREVER to get off the floor. He has a very exaggerated “load-up” (swinging his arms back) to jump.

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Posted by mcspufftiger7

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Posted on 2/18/24 at 9:37 am to Alt26

Hell If Hannibal had an outside shot he might be an all American. He is a beast on the boards and strong to the hoop. Wish he’d take the 15-20 footers they literally give him. Would open up the lane which helps Baker and Wright.

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Posted by Tiger Ugly

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Posted on 2/18/24 at 1:36 pm to Alt26

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Dean leads Baker in every adjusted rebounding category (adjusted for minutes played)

So Baker averages 4.86 rebounds per minutes played. Dean averages 4.2 rebounds per minutes played. Those numbers are for the season. Now I didn't go to the trouble of separating that into SEC play but both have played against the same teams so for me that's representative enough.

I got this by averaging minutes played for the season by rebounds for the season. This is on the ESPN site. If there is another adjustment you are figuring in or if ESPN's totals are flawed, which is possible, then of course those numbers are flawed.

Edit - used the numbers on the LSU site and they were the same. And in addition Baker averages more rebounds per minutes played than Dean in SEC play as well.

I post this not to say Baker is a great rebounder but that Dean is not appreciably better, in fact from a pure numbers standpoint he's not better at all.

This post was edited on 2/18/24 at 1:43 pm

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