Polarizing Ryan Kalkbrenner reality could be a serious problem for Hornets

Charlotte Hornets, Ryan Kalkbrenner | Sam Sharpe-Imagn ImagesAs valuable as Ryan Kalkbrenner has been for the Charlotte Hornets, he still has plenty of flaws to work on. Among them is his seeming inability to clean up the defensive glass, as his defensive rebounding percentage (16.4 percent) is in the 22nd percentile among bigs and is even worse than that of LaMelo Ball and Miles Bridges. However, it's unfair to gauge the rookie's impact based on that statistic alone, given that the Hornets have limited opponents to a second-best 10.1 offensive boards per game.

Kalkbrenner has helped a ton in that area, as his penchant for boxing out opposing big men has provided his teammates with enough…