DeJuan Blair: San Antonio Spurs Power Forward is a Beast

October 12th, 2010 by ken park Leave a reply »
If you had to guess the NBA's top five rebounders from last season (on a per-minute basis), chances are, San Antonio's DeJuan Blair would not have made that list. And who could blame you?

Listed at 6'7", it is hard to imagine that someone so short (relatively speaking) could rebound at a comparable rate to Dwight Howard, Marcus Camby or Samuel Dalembert, who tower over him in height. But in the table below, there he is, DeJuan Blair, the fourth best rebounder in the league last year.

 



What Blair lacks in height, he makes up in fierce determination. In an interview last April with Draft Express' Jonathan Givony, Blair explains his mental approach to rebounding the ball:

Jonathan Givony: Can you take us through the nuances of what makes a great offensive rebounder from a technical standpoint?

DeJuan Blair: Like I tell everyone who asks me that, you’ve just got to go get the ball. You can’t just let the ball come to you, cause if you let the ball come to you, then it’ ...

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