{"id":591556,"date":"2026-02-09T00:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/591556\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:56:18","slug":"mo-dioubate-is-the-best-offensive-rebounder-of-missed-free-throws-in-the-history-of-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/591556\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Dioubate is the Best Offensive Rebounder of Missed Free Throws in the History of Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Tshiebwe<\/a> is a true outlier in the art of rebounding. His talent and tenacity at the rim produced two of the five best rebounding seasons in Kentucky basketball history<\/a>. He broke a Rupp Arena record by rebounding at a rate that this program had not seen since the 50s. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s improbable that anyone can ever come close to Tshiebwe, but there\u2019s one thing Mo Dioubate<\/a> actually does better when it comes to cleaning the glass. <\/p>\n

For weeks, I have argued in public forums that Dioubate might be the best offensive rebounder of missed free throws we\u2019ve ever seen. In the final seconds against Tennessee, he proved that he is in fact the best to ever do it. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s such a highly specific skill, and one that is rarely needed in a game, which is why you\u2019ve probably never thought about it before. But have you ever seen someone who is consistently giving his team possession off of missed free throws? Dioubate is one-of-one in this regard, and on Saturday night, it helped the Cats secure a comeback win. <\/p>\n

Dioubate Gave Kentucky the Dagger<\/p>\n

Tom Hart dubbed Collin Chandler<\/a> \u201cCaptain Clutch.\u201d He lived up to that nickname by hitting the go-ahead three in the final seconds. BBN might\u2019ve taken that title away if not for Dioubate. <\/p>\n

The 86.7% free throw shooter was sent to the charity stripe in a one-point game with 7.3 seconds on the clock. Everybody in Rupp Arena was ready for Chandler to bury both shots and send home the Vols crying. Dioubate was prepared for the worst. <\/p>\n

Chandler\u2019s attempt clanged off the rim. Dioubate came in from out of nowhere, secured the rebound, then threw it up to Denzel Aberdeen<\/a>. Four seconds ticked off the clock before Tennessee could send Aberdeen to the line, where he hit both to give Kentucky the final 74-71 advantage. <\/p>\n

Dioubate did not fill up the stat sheet \u2014 four points, four fouls, two rebounds, a steal, and a block in 15 minutes \u2014 but he gave the Cats exactly what they needed down the stretch. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe plays he\u2019s making are not the stuff that you see on SportsCenter\u2019s Top 10, but they are the plays that win,\u201d Mark Pope said after the victory<\/a>. \u201cHis offensive rebounds down the stretch in the last three minutes at Tennessee are what won us the game.\u00a0His offensive rebound at the free-throw line is the play that sealed the game for us today.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\u201cYou just can\u2019t overstate the value of that. Sometimes it\u2019s hard to love that as a player when that\u2019s who you are, which is unfortunate, because everybody else in the league would kill to have that guy that is going to make that play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mo Dioubate is the best offensive rebounder off missed free throws in the history of basketball and you can\u2019t tell me otherwise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Tshiebwe is a true outlier in the art of rebounding. His talent and tenacity at the rim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,14351,14352,8183,19584],"class_list":{"0":"post-591556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-collin-chandler-22-farmington","10":"tag-denzel-aberdeen-22-dr-phillips","11":"tag-mouhamed-dioubate-23-putnam-science-academy","12":"tag-oscar-tshiebwe-19-kennedy-catholic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116037956006222232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}