As I outlined here earlier in the offseason, the New Orleans Pelicans’ big free agent acquisition, Solomon Hill, is not a great rebounder. That’s not to say that every player on the court needs to be a plus rebounder for a team to be successful in that department overall, but considering that Hill’s best suited to play power forward in small lineups, he needs to improve in that department.
Nearly every other player the Pelicans signed this offseason was a guard; while Langston Galloway’s size and “nose” for the ball (five rebounds and 1.3 steals per 36 minutes over his two years in New York) may one day lend themselves to plus rebounding from the backcourt, he’s not there yet.