Jeff green was a poor/mediocre shooter out of college and had to work at his shot. He is decent today but still considered streaky
Young already has a very nice jump shot. Nice form, quick release. A top 5 jump shooter out of hs. Last year in the 2nd half his shooting was very good. My point is , he is already ahead in the shooting department vs green and should only get better.
My bad on greens wingspan measurement. But man if his wingspan is 7.1(plus height, jumping ability) I cant believe even more how poor of a rebounder he is
Rebounding has far more to do with where you are on the floor than it does with leaping or length.
Sullinger was by far our best rebounder last year, despite being neither long nor athletic.
Sullinger plays primarily down in the paint on both offense and defense. Thus, he is in position to at least get _chances_ at rebounding. Sully is also excellent at _grabbing_ his chances, but the latter skills would do him no good if he was constantly playing 18 feet out.
NBA's Player Tracking data provides useful data that tracks how well players rebound. In particular, you can see how many chances they actually had as well as what percentage of those chances they grabbed -- and perhaps most telling, how well they grabbed them when contested (opponents also having a chance at the same rebound).
http://stats.nba.com/playerTrackingRebounding.html?pageNo=1&rowsPerPage=25&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&filters=TeamAbbr*E*BOS
On our team, Sully was in position to grab a healthy 13.3 rebound chances per game, of which he grabbed 60.9% -- both numbers tops on the team. (He also grabbed 45.8% of _contested_ rebound chances, which was one of the top numbers in the NBA).
Green was in position to grab a more modest 7.8 rebound chances (6th on the team) but he did grab 59.3% of those, which was behind only Sullinger and Bass among our forwards.
For whatever reason - whether it is his own way of playing or how his coaches use him, Green tends to be out on the perimeter a lot on defense and offense (and very rarely crashes the boards). I don't expect he'll ever post high rebound numbers.