Andre Drummond Admitted That He Used To Miss Shots On Purpose In Order To Pad His Rebounding Stats

I am so sick and tired of all the old takes about Andre Drummond not being a winning player. Because I guarantee all those rebounds he was collecting from his own misses helped many fantasy basketball teams hold up their virtual Larry O'Brien trophy at the end of the year. 

I don't have Stathole's advanced analytics or even basic understanding of statistics to prove this. But I feel like giving up a fraction of a percent of field goal shooting from a player whose career shooting is above 54% for rebounds is a net positive (fancy term I think I used correctly in order to sound smart) for any fantasy owner out there. 

I imagine the teams that paid Drummond handsomely to score as many points by missing as little shots as possible probably don't love to hear that quote. However, those teams likely paid him handsomely to rebound the basketball over everything else. Sometimes you gotta crack some eggs to make an omelette just like sometimes you have to miss a few bunnies in order to win another rebounding title that you can cash in on with a big fat contract. You know what the players on the fantasy basketball championship team are called? Winners. You know what rich people are called by people obsessed with money? Winners. And you know what rebounders call the guy who averaged more rebounds than them in the NBA any given season? A winner, even if it's only for the stat of rebounding instead of the entire sport of basketball. 

So in conclusion, Andre Drummond has long been a winning player and anybody who disagrees is a loser. And if you don't want him to snag a rebound off of the glass, don't give him a chance to, which Torrey Craig found out the hard way in my favorite highlight of last season.

Obligatory Ricky Davis throwback: