Consider these two observations from Wayne Larrivee, a play-by-play guy for men's basketball on the Big 10 Network, during the January 20th game of Michigan at Wisconsin:
A (with 6:24 left in first half): "That was Michigan's first offensive rebound tonight."
B (with 3:37 left in first half): "Wisconsin doing a little bit better job on it's defensive board now."
Wow, that must have been some three minutes to go from a first offensive rebound of the night to apparently dominating the board to having Wisconsin re-take control!
Anyway, when this scintillating game ended with Wisconsin winning 54-48, Michigan had a total of five offensive rebounds for the game.
Also, consider this footnote from The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons:
"Pete Maravich holds the white-guy record for points (68); Jerry Lucas for rebounds (40); Mark Eaton for blocks (14); Dirk Nowitzki/John Stockton for steals (9); and Dan Majerle/Rex Chapman for threes (9). Peja Stojakovic had 10 threes in a game but I don't count the Euros as true white guys. Just a personal thing with me."
It's good info - but if he isn't counting Euros as "white guys"... then why is Dirk Nowitzki included for his 9 steal game?!? Are Germans not Euros? WTF?!?
