My respect for james harden has gone up to a new level. All of last year harden took the blame for "not imcorporating" dwight howard. And because of that his rep took a hit in the league. Harden could have been a b**** like Dwight but took his whipping from the media like a man. Now all of a sudden you have reggie miller, and amin elhassin on hardens dick saying, " OMG how could harden be left off allnba team averaging 29/7/6.... smh. Dwight just kills team chemistry because hes not a hard worker and he lacks basic fundamentals. Clint Capela may not have the ceiling dwight has but he is a hard worker who doesnt laugh and joke around 24/7
I agree something is wrong.. ATL only missing one person. They shouldn't be losing by 40 points. Maybe Dwight is mad everyone doesn't hangout together. Milsap doesn't look like a hangout person.
can't believe we thought this signing would put us over the top... i saw the first half highlights, and this dude does not seem to be cheery with his teammates...i think everyone in the league is tired of his ****
Absolutely he's not, i remember reading another Codman post this summer saying that Millsap wasn't exactly thrilled at the idea of having Dwight, and you can say the same about Horford since he went to Boston in the end...not sure why Bud wanted Dwight knowing he would've lost one between Horford and Millsap...maybe he thought he could've traded Millsap for something good after resigning Horford...
Dwight is caught in the past. A one time MVP level player, now a conundrum, still talented, but his ego is distraction to the overall game plan. He is pyrite on legs.
Dwight the 'cancer' theory is real : http://fansided.com/2016/11/30/dwight-howard-hawks-sustainable/ "Hawks have actually been outscored with Howard on the floor, and both their offense and defense have been around five points per 100 possessions better when he’s sat...the offense tends to short-circuit when Howard and Schroder share the court. The duo has played 393 minutes together and the Hawks have scored at a bottom-three rate during that time (96.2 points per 100 possessions), and for somewhat obvious reasons: Nobody is all that threatened by a pick-and-roll where the dive man can’t score outside the immediate area of the rim and the point guard can’t consistently make teams pay for not devoting an extra man to him when he comes around the screen. Because the defense doesn’t feel threatened it doesn’t have to send aggressive help toward the paint, which means the ball doesn’t ping around the perimeter in the Hawks-y way we’ve become so familiar with over the last few years; and suddenly (for example) Kent Bazemore isn’t quite as open all the time and he starts making 30 percent of his 3s as opposed to 36 percent. Baze has made 10 of 19 triples with Dwight on the bench and only 11 of 51 with Dwight on the floor. Better performance without Dwight in the game is not exclusive to Bazemore, either. Seven different Hawks have played at least 100 minutes with Howard this season. Six of them have a better Net Rating when playing without Dwight than with him." Remember, we won 56 games in 2014-15 with Dwight missing out half the season. Turns out there was a reason for that.
Howard quotes after tonight's game against Toronto: ''We just have to stop getting frustrated with each other...'' "I think we got a little frustrated at times on the floor and it showed." ''I think we need to do a little better job holding our composure and understand that it won't like this the whole season.'' ''I just think we need to get out of our own heads. You're frustrated, you miss a shot you're like,'Oh man, I can't make a shot' or 'Oh man, I just messed up again.'''
i don't like dwight and i'm not trying to defend him, but, if i added it up correctly, they are -71 with him off the court over those 10 games so they aren't exactly lighting it up whatever the situation. losing 2 games by 80 points, that's pretty epic.
their final margin of victory (uhh, defeat) in their last 10 games is -150 points. so if they are really -79 with him on the court, then they would be -71 with him off the court. and i would guess he played more than half the minutes but i don't know.
