Under most circumstances, Dwight Howard should never have more post ups than D-Mo.

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Not at all. We can't have two post players at same time and do the twin tower thing or we clog the lanes for Harden. Harden is paramount here. There can be no argument on this. We really need a stretch 4 that can rebound but those are rare and hard to get. We just need to try to work it all out by the end of the year and hope when when we meet up with all of these teams that we can compete. We do have a string of these teams coming up to get a glimpse of where are at and then see if playing two post players with Harden is feasible. Until then everyone needs to chill.

 

There are no second chance point opportunities on turnovers.

 

There is a stat that read, we score 28% of the time on Dwight Howard post ups. He either scores, misses, gets fouled and misses, makes his free throw, turns it over, or assist on a bucket.

His post ups are only done to make him feel better. He's a reluctant screener and not a great passer out of the post.

PnR is his staying power and allows him to operate at the 18 and 11 points and rebounds. However, he keeps going back to his Orlando days of in the finals.

D12, wake up, rebounding, get a hand in the face, show on screens (stop staying in the lane, allowing the offensive player wide open shots), run PnR until you drop. If I see you in the post, I'm waving you out.

 

PnR's can be defended if the opposing team knows you are going to run it exclusively. We have a lot of games still to play to keep tweaking the offense to the players.

 

We all saw what he can do in last year's playoffs. He's no where near that level now and I agree if he can't get his game going he needs to give his post up touches to Dmo who is like twice as effective.

However what I'm not sure about is if it's just that Howard isn't really applying himself in the regular season or if it's because of his injuries. The latest article from ESPN quotes him as saying he's basically holding himself back for the playoff to go into beast mode. Which if that's the case, I'm fine with him holding himself back to protect his body as long as he's good with giving up his touches to Dmo. If he wants to flip the switch in the playoffs even better.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNcxexaRN30

(D-MO) was A BEAST against the Nets last night!
His TOUCH though!
I was AMAZED at that push-shot he hit from just inside the free-throw lane, after coming off a PnR with Beverley in the 4th.

Meanwhile, Dwight shoots 2 air-balls from the post...

I love Dwight and want him to succeed, but he's just so DUMB!

He still gets caught standing in the paint too long! I've never seen D-mo get caught in the paint! D-mo is smart enough to watch the play that's developing infront of him, while remembering to stay arms length away from his guy. He defends the perimeter MUCH better, and is smart enough to know when to "Trap" the ball handler. D-Mo is smart enough to keep his emotions controlled when refs make DUMBASS calls.
So it's not only that D-mo is more skilled than Dwight, D-mo has better Basketball IQ than Dwight!

Most importantly, D-Mo plays harder than Dwight EVERY NIGHT!

I pray that D-mo gets touches in the paint, during the play-offs.

 

No, James Harden was a beast last night against the nets. DMo was ok.

 

That's offensive towards DMO. He was better than okay. They didn't have an answer for him.

 

I didn't know that. Didn't want to read the rest when you started your post with that. Dwight has a weak post game. I'll let you slide with average but in no way is his post game above average.

 

we should start a petition about it, every game bring signs of it, so that it gets the team's attention, then the coaching staff may begin to address it, DH is never going to be a good lowpost offensive player, but if he plays hard, his physical greatness still allows him to be a positive impact. But when he coasts, things look a lot worse than usual

 

DMO sets picks for Harden, and Harden often passes to him after roll. DMO is more willing to set picks. Howard tends to park down low. I agree it is an ego thing. Howard should be setting picks more and DMO should park down low more. McHale gotta get it straightened out. It's not like Howard will be completely be a Rodman/Wallace type of players. He should still get post up touches, but he has to have a mindset in place that that's not his bread & butter.

 

The same is true for Smith. He stays out there at the 3pt line. It just messes things up. He is going be much more efficient if he makes himself available 5 feet closer to the basket.

 

Howard actually sets a lot of screens during the game. Yeah a third of them are weak screens but he does set quite a lot throughout the course of the game.

 

McHale needs to make an effort to make sure Howard gets ball back or they have to work on the angels. If he does not get the ball back, he is not going to be motivated to set those screens. Maybe the weak ones is related to that, he is just too rush to get to the basket.

 

*YAWN*

Call me in the Playoffs

Rocket River

 

Just imagine our upside on offense in the playoffs.

Playoff Dwight who was a completely different player in the post, Dmo is actually going to get lots of minutes in the playoffs, MVP Harden, Smoove is getting better and better and Ariza is getting out of his shooting slump.

As long as we can play smart, we should go far.

 

He probably would get more alley oops off those pick and rolls but can't be as explosive to the basket because of his knee

 

BINGO. I ditto that. LOL. Knee jerk city in the regular season is the norm in here at times.

 

Spot on!

 

Honestly, I'm weirded out Howard doesn't prefer PnR. Not because of the results, but because of the abuse he has to forced to take in the post and his injury. He is naturally more athletically gifted than other bigs and putting them out of position might help him save his body a little