He didn’t defend or rebound, that’s why people weren’t fond of him. He was good to great on the offensive end, but he had to guard the other team’s 4…required a lot of banging back in those days. We needed him to be able to rebound on the defensive end with that length. Unfortunately, he refused to do it and it wasn’t a lack of abulityFor his career, he averaged 5.5 boards a game. About 2 of those were offensive boards. Guy liked to score. He’s 6’10”.
For comparison just this year. Tolu averaging 8.1, Cam 7.2, Bell 6.5, D.J. 5.5 boards a game.
Spoon played a lot with Holman. He averaged 5.2 boards over his career.
Holman rebounds per 40min- 10.5 for his 4 year career.
Tolu rebounds per 40min- 11.2 for his 4 years at MSU.
We are talking about a difference of 0.7 rebounds per 40min of play.
See that's one way you seem to really miss the mark with some of this discussion- you don't normalize stars when you should, you cite high level season stats at a per game level, and now you also are doing the very thing I pointed out with Holman- you are knocking him for not being the player you wanted him to be, which is quite arbitrary since each of us may want something different.
'He needed to get more rebounds!'
Just because someone is 6'10 doesn't mean they need to play a certain way or fill a certain role.
On a related note, Holman played with Ado, who actually was a low post big man. Ado averaged 9.2 rebounds per40.
And Holman was on the team for Gavin Ware's last season. He was also very much a bang down low player in body and skill set. Ware averaged 10.7 rebounds per40.
Figure some more context may help you as you continue along your journey of enlightenment(reasonableness).
