Why? Donatus can come in and help build brick buildings? Donatus has to earn his nickname as well. He cant even earn a cheap contract. 3 things guaranteed in life. 1. Death 2. Taxes 3. Dumbarse threads on clutchfans.
He is a very good defender - the best positional big on the team....not sure where you get your not a good defender bit. DD
Worst case, at least he rotates and will take bumps unlike softies Nene and Ryno. Nene really disappointed me.
Nene is bad, DMo is atrocious. DMo may be one of the worst rebounding PF's in the league. This is clearly not a strength he's ever had. Saying "if we had DMo" sounds like the typical delusional Dmo fan who overrates him simply because they like his personality. Just because he's likable & friendly doesn't make him a better basketball player for this team
I want D Mo back very much, but we showed last night our priority acquisition MUST be a dominant rebounder. We need an athletic Chuck Hayes type who is smart on both sides of the ball, but athletic enough to finish consistently. God I miss the Chuckwaggon!
Outside of D-Mo, Harrell is really the only guy that has any semblance of a box out in his game. For that reason alone I would take a look.
People who say DMo is a bad rebounder must be simply looking at box scores. If you actually watch the games, you know you can add 3-4 rebounds a night that he helps a teammate get because he nearly always, while the ball is in the air, locates the nearest big man and boxes out. In other words, sacrifices his own stats for the good of the team. I don't think DMo is the answer to all our problems, but the guy plays smarter basketball than 3/4 or our roster, has developed into a true 3-pt threat (nearly 37% in his last healthy season), and does actually solve a few of the problems we seem to have. Maybe we should start a GoFundMe page to add to his offer from DM. Sure, a $4.5M contract might seem to be a lowball tactic by DMo and his agent, but I'm betting his eyes would light up at the prospect of getting $4,500,160 instead.
Dmo is nota good rebounder in the sense that he can't go up and grab boards over ppl like the great rebounders in this league can. But there was at least 3 possessions off the top of my head that the ball was right there waiting for nene to go grab it and he couldn't because he reaction time was just not there. Im positive dmo can grab those boards. I'm not worried about Anderson he is what he is. He made some shots and he'll for the most part shoot a lot better than this most games. But we need dmo to play post defense he's just a bigger body and an hold his own against PFs down low. Capela was pretty good he needs to get better at rim protection but overall I thought he was fine on offense and he rebounded the ball pretty well at least when he was in the game I felt we could actually pull down a rebound nene/Anderson not so much. But our offense is our defense and if we're hitting threes we will be fine. We got out to a 9 point lead in a matter of 3 minutes into the game. Had we been able to get a rebound in that stretch that followed the game would have got out of hand and we would have blown them out by 25+ gaurentee. Iv been saying it but the 1st quarter is going to be what makes and breaks this team. Grab the defensive rebound and we'll be fine. Because in the first quarter with fresh legs were more explosive with our shooting and run and gun offense then anyone in the league. It should have been 23-6 but we gave up way to many second chance points to start the game. They had 4 offensive rebounds in the first five minutes of the game for 9 points I believe, if that doesn't happen even with there 7 made threes that quarter it's a 38-28 lead after one for us at worst.
Overall he's nothing special, but he adds a ton of energy and he'll get you some offensive rebounds every night.
He still overall rates as a very poor rebounder and nothing he has done to date proves otherwise. I would like to think because of his playing style(similar to Manimal's) that he would be better, but he just isn't.
Oh yah no doubt he adds energy and plays hard every second. But I think our biggest concern is rebounding and Harrell doesn't provide much of that.
Quick reality check for the Dmo fans here - He has been mostly hurt for the last few years, he is getting older and was never really that athletic of a player in the first place - relying on skill instead. When he comes back he will need to get reconditioned, learn to play with new teammates, and learn D'Antoni's system. I like Dmo - I really do, but it's unrealistic to think he is going to help the team that much this year unless he returns very soon and even then the best case is that he manages to pull it all together after the all-star break at the earliest. All of that assumes he doesn't get hurt again - remember a team rescinded a trade because they said he wasn't healthy enough last year. In summation - ALL signs point to the fact that we aren't going to see peak Dmo any time soon.
Nope. Just because he has the same hairstyle as Faried or is a psycho, doesn't make him even close to a good rebounder.
