Howard was awesome last night. Now if Dmo has to play the post to be effective then we need to get rid of his ass as we need someone that can spread the court and we need TJ for that. Dmo is a back up.
Coddling Dwight's ego is killing our offense right now. If Dwight has to put the ball on the floor and make a move it almost always ends poorly. His only post attempts should be after he gets great low position. D-mo on the other hand can create a good post shot, regardless of where he gets it at. I could tolerate a 50-50 split, but D-mo only getting a few touches every game is just mind bogglingly stupid. I agree, if this is how we plan to use him going forward than we should trade him, because he simply isn't productive offensively otherwise. We can watch him become a borderline all-star on a team that actually utilizes his extremely rare skill.
lol Howard is a DPOY with a decent offense. Dmo is not and never will be considered near a DPOY but can have a good offense...maybe.
Think he needs to dramatically improve his rebounding for a 7 footer to be borderline anything. He may be better off the bench than paired with Howard at the moment, time will tell.
This. I think if TJones can come back healthy and pick up where he left off, he goes back into the starting lineup. When DMo comes off the bench and Howard sits, DMo should get as many post ups as humanly possible while on the court until the other team is forced to double team it so he can make some easy kick outs for 3s. I would like to see us get another backup center such as Wright or O'Neil though, so that DMo can play exclusively backup PF. But he has to improve his box out positioning and rebounding rate to be a complete player.
DMO should be able to chew up 2nd units with his new found confidence and if he's got it rolling on any specific night the team just needs to milk him till he can't go anymore.
Thing is, the 2nd unit doesn't look for him in the low post. Only k-pap feeds DoMo but he rarely gets the ball in his hand. 2nd unit - run and gun, chuck a bunch of 3s.
McHale needs to make the team force feed the ball to him out of the block and spread the floor with occasional cutters to the bucket like Brewer while DMO does his thing in the post.
How does that have anything to do with Howard being a bad post option and D-mo being a good one. This is just like OKC and Westbrook. They are a better team with him than without, but if he played a different style they would be an even greater team. Howard getting repeated post attempts is bad offense. Him being a great rebounder and a beast on defense has nothing to do with that.
lol That repeated post attempts have made Howard a leader in getting fouled. I am assuming I don't have to explain why putting the opposing team in foul trouble as a extremely valuable thing. Also we need to keep working on having Howard learn the post play along with the team. If the team learns how to play post then it will also help Dmo become even more effective. When the playoffs come we will be very glad we have invested in perfecting post play.
The title of this thread is about posting up D-Mo. We want post ups, we have a problem with a disproportionate number of the post attempts going to the inferior post player because he is the bigger star. D-Mo can get fouled too, but he's usually to busy scoring.
lol Yes but Howard can get fouled playing the post regularly and play at a DPOY pace. Can anyone here honestly believe that Dmo will ever be a great defender? Play at a DPOY pace? Does anyone even understand how big a deal it is to have the DPOY on ones team?
