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Originally Posted by CadBane
What's really odd to me is that Barkley's defensive rebounding went up in his older years.
Barkley was really at his offensive peak from 22-28. However, during that span, his highest DRB% was only 25.4% (lower than Dirk's best year).
After that:
29: 26.3%
30: 25.6%
31: 26.8%
32: 25%
33: 27.7%
34: 28.8% (career high at 34!)
35: 25.1%
His first 8 years top out at 25.4%, but his last 7 he tops that 5 times! Strange indeed.
(I didn't count his final year where he only played 20 games.)
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Some stats are greatly affected by the personnel on the floor, and rebounding is definitely one of them...
Take Dirk, for example - sure his boards have naturally declined with age, but adding ace rebounders like Kidd and Marion around him have undoubtedly reduced the amount of rebounds he NEEDS to grab.
I don't have the time to comb through Barkley's squads, but I wonder if a change of personnel forced him to grab more boards, opposite of Dirk? That might be one way to explain the anomaly...