[Inside The NBA] What Dwight Needs To Do

15-20 shot attempts per game? That's elite post players numbers (Dream, Shaq, Duncan, etc.).

 

Yeah, that wouldn't work because he is so limited offensively, but he should be getting a lot of touches in the post though. Let them see what he can do and how the d will play him because he's going to have some possessions where he can get buckets easily. Inside out basketball can still work with him.

 

First video is Howard talking and the other didn't work, so we can't see the clip you're referring to.

 

Make free throws

 

What i think is Dwights fundamental problem with getting better at free
throws is that he (along with everybody else) wants him to get his percentage
upto 60-70%. That's the whole problem with his mentality, he will just keep
practiving his screwed up form, trying to just get "practice" to somehow
turn into makes. If he set his goal to be like an 80-85% shooter than he would
realize that with his current form, getting there is impossible. He's had years
to "practice", and he hasn't once stopped and think, "hey, wouldn't changing
my form or getting a specialized coach to start my shot from scratch be a good idea?"
Dwight is aiming for mediocrity, and he will continue trying to use his mediocre
form to try and get there. And tbh, can it really get any worse? A change for
the worse for me is preferable to the same old pitifulness

 

Dwight is not a elite big man and never will be.

He is more comparable to a mutombo /rik smits level. He won't ever be a dream Shaq, Ewing, Robonsion or even Yao level.

 

Yao's FGM is around 15 in his entire career.
Howard is 12-13.

He must show improvement in his post game first.

 

Most people would have taken him over Yao back when Yao played.

 

Only because of Yao's fragility and agility. Yao's basketball IQ is way, way better than Howard. I'd take Yao if his ankle/foot isn't injury prone.

 

The problem is Dwight is not Hakeem or Shaq. He's also no longer in his prime. Still one of the best Center sin the league, but if you watch him now he is not some kind of unstoppable force. Barkley and Kenny talk as if he's at the level of Hakeem or Shaq in their primes but he's no where near that anymore.

 

He doesn't need to become Olajuwon or Duncan.

But there is a problem with the H&H PnR where Howard is not scoring enough off of those plays. It's supposed to be unstoppable, but Harden is wasting these possessions on jump shots off the screen.

 

pretty much. Dwight was an iron man when these discussions were taking place. Meanwhile Yao was getting more screws in that left foot.

 

He doesn't need 15-20 shot attempts, more like 10-15.

 

The first thing he needs to do is learn some new post moves. He has one move he uses all the time, and half of the time he tries it, it results in a turnover.