Not everyone watching the sports will be searching their own Justin Bieber to worship. Just because someone like to point out the facts - the weakness or the strength which reflected by a players on court performance, doesn't mean he will hate the player personally. In fact, "haters" will be more likely coming the worshipers. Take Josh Smith as an example, lots of people will have unrealistic high hope from him after he got waived by the Pistons and believing he will be the savior of the Rockets and our 3rd major stars. And after the first 4-5 games, they realized the reality is far from what they expected, they started to hate on Josh. The problem is not on Josh Smith, the problem is on those people. Same can be applied to Dmo, he had progressed a lots this season. Mainly on offense. But just because of this, some people will try to ignore the facts about his weakness (defense and rebounding) and trying to find any excuses to defend him on every aspects. At the end, this group of people will eventually become the biggest Dmo haters once he will hit a big wall and fail on their expectations.
D-mo is a very bad rebounder, there is really no other way to slice it. But there has become a wholly unfounded belief that he is a bad defensive player, and he's not. He is a very good defensive player. He is a spectacular defensive power forward, but he is playing out of position right now.
Agreed. Spectacular may be a little bit strong because he plays a positional ground bound defense. In my book, spectacular defense applies to a guy like Smoove who can track guys down and stuff them in addition to being very good in post defense and help. DMo is one of those guys that slides and uses position and uses his body on the opponent. He has become very good at what he does and isn't getting the full credit from the officials yet. They'll have to watch even more video on him. But I'd say DMo's defensive awareness and movement are becoming akin to Chuck Hayes' back in the day.
Please educate us how can a 7 FT big men, whose a very bad rebounder, also never been a shoot blocker, while often in foul troubles, will be a "spectacular defensive player".
Perhaps I did overstate with spectacular, but D-mo is a very good position defender. I know some of you can't comprehend the fact that there is more to defense than blocking shots, but there is.
so we're not saying "his true position is center, dwight is holding him back, trade dwight", anymore?
I just want to bump this r****ded, idiotic comment after Dmo took 3 charges last night. Please tell us more about Dmo's defense and how blocks are the only thing that matter while ignoring that DMo has one of the best opponent FG% at the rim.
He's not spectacular. But he is a good defender at the 4, not so much at the 5. You don't have to be a shot blocker to be a good defender. DMo is very good at staying between his man and the basket. He is very good at rotation. He is also not "often in foul troubles" anymore. He used to as a rookie. But not anymore. He is very good at defending the PnR when he has a rim protector like Dwight behind him. He knows when to hatch to trap the ball handler and when to run back to cover the big. As the 5, he is often showing too high and leave the interior exposed. DMo's biggest weaknesses are: 1. Lack of explosiveness. That's why he's not a shot blocker, not a good rebounder, and doesn't play above the rim. 2. Lack of strength. He gets pushed around underneath the basket. 3. He rushes his shots when he is not confident. 4. Too unselfish. He passes up some good post opportunities. He often gives up posting up and runs out to set pick too soon when the ball handler does not look for him. #2 can be changed with some more training. #3 is mental and hopefully can improve with more experience. #4 is a team thing. Only the coaching staff can fix it. The only weakness that cannot be fixed is #1, the lack of explosiveness. I agree with those who compare him with Yao (not saying that he's the same caliber player!). Yao was never explosive and was weak in the upper body and generally does not play above the rim even with his enormous size. But Yao got stronger eventually and learned to be more "selfish" in posting up. DMo is a lot smaller than Yao. So he will never get to Yao's level. But he can still get better.
Isnt a little bit naive to expect have fastest 7', who have post and 3 point range, good perimeter D, (all he have) and strength and athleticism and rebounding in his first year of +20min season.. dont you think that?
Overrated at the beginning to underrated now. He's a solid player that has a great post game but also has plenty of deficiencies
The Lack of Explosion is why I project him at the 5 more than the 4 Mainly because there are so many explosive 4's . . .esp in the west Rocket River
Who the hell thought getting smith is going to save the Rockets? Some of us didn't even want him on the team.
You don't even watch games do you? He gets called for touchy fouls. DoMo goes up against a lot of good bigs on the West and he is going to get call for it. Just like how harden gets the call against the opponent because of how weak the SG position is in the NBA right now.
Prove what point? That you know very little about basketball? Trust me, that's coming across loud and clear, there's no need to further prove it.
That guy has proved that he doesn't know basketball from his comments on multiple topics over the past few months. It's probably time to put him on ignore.
Well it's certainly not at the center position. I look forward to DMo being able to go back to his natural position eventually.
His defense at PF is absolutely elite, it's not "like Dwight" because he does it differently, but very similar results.
