You obviously know very little about basketball, dude.
“Elite” rebounder? Yeah dude, whatever you say.
The most RPG he ever averaged at UT was last season when he averaged 6 per game.
The most offensive RPG he ever averaged was also last season when he averaged 2.
So, 2 offensive rebounds per game is elite, bro? GTFO.
He played all 4 years and never once led his team in rebounds.
Go enroll in Basketball 101 and come back after you pass the final. Thanks in advance.
Have you seen him play? He had 4 offensive rebounds that game alone. I'm going to hit you with stats, because you seemingly know nothing about basketball.
We can all agree that grant and admiral were very good rebounders, as grant was second in the SEC and admiral was 2nd among SFs and 16th overall. Kyle had plenty of competition to get those boards.
You can't just do it per game, Kyle plays significantly less minutes than the other starters. Let's look at the per 40 minutes.
Grant: 9.4
Admiral: 7.7
Kyle: 11.2
Great, now that we've established he's our most efficient rebounder, let's look at the offensive rebounding numbers since that's the only part I mentioned.
Kyle was 4th in the SEC in offensive rebounding, which is already very good. He was second in offensive rebounding percentage, behind Bigby Williams, a noted offensive rebounding specialist.
If you do his offensive rebounding stats per 36, he's better than Donta Hall, Daniel Gafford, Nicolas Claxton, PJ Washington, Grant Williams. That's 4 NBA draft picks and another G leaguer.
Heck his per 36 rebounding number (3.92 per 36) would have been good enough for 21st in the NBA which plays at a way faster rate than college (obviously that's against other NBA competition, but that was the easiest stats to find and compare). His offensive rebound percentage would have been 6th in the NBA.
Again that's all with the second best rebounder in the SEC on his team. I'd say that's elite territory. Let me know how basketball 101 is.