Not much you can do when he won't improve aspects of his game and he refuses to set picks. Coaching helps to a point. No matter where he goes he's going to have to listen, set picks and do things even though he may not be getting a lot of back to the basket post touches. I don't see Dwight doing that. God help me I agree with Skip Bayless I don't see Dwight changing, lol. He needs to go somewhere desperate where they will give him the ball back to the baskets every time.
SAS does excellent interviews, shame they just don't keep him for in studio interviews. He used to have a show where he would just do interviews and it was great stuff. Having him troll with Bayless is just bad. Thankfully Fox is stealing all of ESPNs trolls away, maybe when Skip leaves that show will fade away and Smith will go back to doing interviews.
I agree, he has such a massive torso, if he set would just set the pick, he would be a massive obstacle to get around. I also read that due to his back and knee problems, he actually has trouble getting low for post moves. If that is the case he needs to go for a lot more pick and roll. Older big men are still great at rolling to the basket, and to my untrained eye Dwight can still run and jump. He needs to change his game as he gets older.
Dwight wouldn't go on national T.V and say something like that if it wasn't true. I'm sure Magic's CD4 count is doing good, but he probably suffers to some degree of HIV dementia. (not kidding)
Think Dwight said he was in highschool when Magic said that. Can't see why Dwight would lie about that. And maybe there's context such as Magic talking to a group of students about how difficult it is to make it or the %'s of those who do. (Kind of in a mentor way by saying have something to fall back on). Plus it was more than a few years ago, so why would Magic remember? Don't see why this really matters.
Magic is a dyed in the wool idiot. No disrespect to the player but he makes Dwight look like Chomsky and Drexler look like Stephen Hawking. Magic probably said a ton of dumb s::t to kids with hopes for the NBA but doesn't remember. Let's also not forget that Magic is a complete shill for the Lakers. He's taken many a number of ridiculously unfair pop shots at Howard for leaving Kobe's broke ass.
Not sure if serious. Dwight has repeatedly said things in the media that weren't true or half-truths just to try and save his tattered reputation. Have we forgotten about the SVG fiasco?
LOL, there are lies when it comes to someone's motive, and then there are anecdotes like that where usually don't lie (especially on national T.V because the backlash from lying over something inconsequential completely outweighs not mentioning it at all). People that get to that level have severe personality and mental issues, or are just compulsive liars. If it was something relating to his motive and end-game, it would be open to criticism.
Lol... If you don't get, you don't know basketball. How many basketball fans do like Howard play now?
He started that interview with a lie. "I've never thought about it" when speaking of whether he would opt in or out, bull****. Dude got a new agent specifically for this summer and he's hasn't thought about it? OK Dwight. Even Charles and Kenny knew he was lying and they tried to get him to reframe his words.
[rQUOTEr]When Dwight Howard was a kid, he used to watch old basketball training tapes of Magic Johnson, then run outside and practice those techniques so feverishly, it's like he knew when he started ballin' at age 3 that he was working out for his future in the NBA. But when Howard had the chance to meet the real Magic at age 15, it took only seven words to make Howard take his workouts even more seriously. Those words? You'll never make it in the NBA. That right, when Howard met the man who used to inspire him to play basketball as a kid, Magic Johnson actually told the teenage center that he didn't have what it took to take his game to the ultimate level. "He said I was too skinny," Howard told me while we kicked back at the Ritz Carlton in downtown Los Angeles. Howard was there to introduce the new "adidas miCoach" fitness game, a product where gamers will learn training techniques from pros like Howard and Josh Smith in order to help them increase their vertical leap, strengthen their core and build muscles using Howard's own tried-and-tested pushup routine so Hall of Famers don't look at you and call you "too skinny." "Magic inspired me by telling me I wasn't going to make it, that I was too little," said Howard. "I was in 10th grade when he told me I was too skinny to play in the NBA. I said, 'OK, we'll see.'" Thousands upon thousands of pushups later, Howard developed into one of the most unstoppable forces in the game. And it's those words from Magic Johnson that, you can tell, still eat at him and inspire him to train to this day. Howard shares those training methods in "miCoach" and hopes to inspire kids who are looking to get in better shape and who want a superstar to help motivate them as they play. Here's what Howard had to tell me about the game after we watched a quick demo, as we talked "miCoach," pushups and what he'd like to see in "NBA 2K12." http://espn.go.com/espn/thelife/vid...ard-talks-micoach-nba-2k12?readmore=fullstory[/rQUOTEr]
It sounds like Magic told him to gain weight and strength or he won't make it and Dwight took it as "You'll never make it, you're not good enough". Basically Dwight has been taking things personally for decades now.
Page 16, Dwight admitted last night that he quits on the team because he doesn't get post touches and you still have his minions on here feverishly defending him. I don't want a quitter on my team. Please Dwert go...
Honestly I'm just tired of your INCESSANT posts ranting about Dwight. Like: like: These comments don't WARRANT a a substantive or relevant response. They warrant ridicule, at best. I should just ignore them. But like I said . . . I'm just sick of them. But if you get joy out of constantly bashing Dwight, then go ahead. It's your life.
Does that mean you want to trade Harden? Despite guarding the opposing team's weakest offensive wing, he continually quits on defense.
