Daryl Denying Dwight, Analytics, and the Hard-Headedness of Dwight Regarding PnR vs Post-Up

Thank you! I enjoyed reading that.

 

Great post. Reinforces the obliviousness of Dwight Howard in his recent media PR tour. Dwight's insistence on limiting what he does well and increasing what he does not do well is insanity that is almost never seen in professional sports.

 

Agreed.

But you don't even need any analytics to know that posting up Dwight is bad. Mr Anti-Analytics Charles Barkley even thinks Dwight has no post-up game, and he's right.

Dwight is delusional. And what's even crazier than him thinking he should get more post-ups, is that he thinks he should be encouraged to shoot jumpers.

 

What's disappointing is that when he would roll to the basket and accept that type of role in the offense, we could kill teams. The stretches where he and Harden would play PnR we would devastate teams. And then it just would stop.

 

good post.

I've always hated the portland series as a reference to how good dwight is. Frankly, that was always a load of ****.

Portland put full focus on shutting down harden and left dwight one on one in the post. He should win one on one's at a higher than 50% clip.

It wasn't dwight showing his dominance. It was Portland choosing their poison.

 

Actually, Morey is wrong. When Dwight joined us as a FA, promises were made to him. Regardless of how poorly Dwight has been in the post, those promises have now been broken. You can argue that Morey is doing what's best for the team, but how do you think it looks to prospective free agents?

 

That the org is not stupid enough to cater to a prima donna in major decline?

DD

 

Thank You, great post. You should have called this post "Dwight for dummies". Some of us had this already figured out for months now. Hard to explain it to some c.f. hard heads without being called a harden lover, lol.

 

I suspect it's very evident to the front office how inefficient Dwight is in the way he plays or wants to play.

That they've explained this to him.

That he doesn't care or refuses to believe it.

And they now just want him to leave because he won't change.

 

Exactly. The stretches where Howard was dominant he was working hard on the glass, setting good screens and actually rolling to the rim like he cared. Seeing Dwight slip screens and then STILL lag way behind on PNR's was so frustrating.

 

As much as we love Hakeem, having him try to teach Dwight post up moves only Hakeem had the physical ability to effectively master and reinforcing the mantra that the big man should "demand the ball" probably didn't help things.

 

Well, we already saw how Asik was effective and willing to play this with Harden years ago...nothing new, everybody knows at this point, or at least everybody should know...thanks for posting though, good thread.

You don't know what they talked in reality, that said, he still had more post touches than anybody in the league so...

 

So, Barkley was right?

 

Exactly. We saw one game in Portland where he committed to the pick and roll and we destroyed them and the rest was just him putting up numbers due to more touches since Harden was the focus. Remember when he got all those touches in game 2, Portland just let him have it, because they knew it would keep the rest out of the game.

 

That's a fan's perspective. But if you're a prospective FA, why would you consider signing with the Rockets when they've showed a willingness to break promises?

For instance, if you're a star FA pg, and Rockets' management is telling you that you'll be allowed to run the offense, are you going to believe them?

 

Well, Stan Van Gundy forced him this way, and that led to a final and a sacking...D'Antoni and Nash tried to force him this way and D'Antoni got fired...McHale talked about this a couple of time too but yeah...

 

Yea, Dwight is turning even people who have some respect for him

I mean, he tells half truths and totally thinks he's not gonna get away with it...its a pattern that has been built over the years.

Sorry Dwight, but I'm done defending you

 

This might be true. We heard the same thing from Asik: that he was guaranteed to be our starting C.

So I suppose it is likely that during their courting of Dwight they said something like "we promise to get you involved on offense" but ehhh who cares. Mark Cuban promised Dirk that he'd surround him with a contender if he took a paycut; Milwaukee almost certainly promised Greg Monroe that he'd be a big part of their franchise for years if he signed there; and so on and so forth.

These empty promises are the norm.

 

So what were the promises made to Dwight? How do you know what was promised?

I seriously doubt that Dwight was promised a specific number of postups