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can't remember the exact definition but it's something to the effect that your team gets the ball back after a play where there was no rebound by an actual player, e.g. the mavs block a shot out of bounds - no one on Sacramento or Dallas gets the rebound but since it's off Dallas, it counts as a team rebound for Sacramento.
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I'd wager giving up team rebounds isn't as severe a problem as losing rebounds to a player on the opposing team since the conversion rate for second chance points off team offensive rebounds, for example, is probably not as high as it is for offensive rebounds garnered by a player. Similarly, one would think team defensive rebounds wouldn't lend themselves to running on the break as well as defensive rebounds grabbed by a player. Nonetheless, when a Mavs opponent gets a rebound, whether it be a team rebound or a rebound by a player, that's either one more chance for them to score, or one less chance for the Mavs to score. The primary exception, as you note, occurs when a player misses the first of two free throws. Even taking that into account, though, the Mavs still got outrebounded by Sacramento. And even when team rebounds are ignored Sac still did better on the boards than the Mavs by rebounding percentage, as Sac players grabbed 65.8% of their available defensive rebounds as compared to 62.5% for the Mavs.