LOL!!!! You guys kill me with pulling stats to make show what is not actually true. In the 2nd quarter when Harden was on the bench, the entire team on the floor.. Including Howard played team ball on both the offensive and defensive end. Howard was also more active, because he knew he would be involved in the offense. Howard has declined and he's not the player he was 3 or 5 years ago, but this team and it's players are not the same as they were a year ago. T_Man
4 games is a very small sample size but at least he's showing signs. We need an engaged Howard if we want to pull ourselves out of this slump.
I like how Dwight is playing. I like how he looked with Trez. I would like to see our rotation go back to bringing Capela off the bench first, with Trez and Donuts splitting minutes at the PF.
Dwight's showing leadership, which is not that common for him. Instead of whining, he is just doing more. He does that for us in the playoffs. When the going gets tough, go after more rebounds, take fewer risks, dive for loose balls, help your teammates on defense. Love this guy. Hope he agrees to stay on a decent contract for two years after this one. Would be nice to have him around as Capela grows into a legit starter.
We should have never asked Hakeem to train him. It was never going to work. We should have asked OTIS THORPE to come in and teach him how to play. #33 Run the floor. Finish everything around the basket. But, i bet Dwight can't even palm a basketball. If he just played like a super OT and continued his D the way it always has been, we would have been a beastly team. But he moves so slow now. Is effort the problem? Harden's laziness rubbing off on the whole team much like CP3's flops and whining rubbed off on the Clippers? Or is Dwight just not ever going to be healthy again?
Dwight has worked with Hakeem since like 2010. He uses a lot of the things he was fought. For example, jumping into a pass in the post so you can quickly get by a guy. He does that a lot. Also a lot of the hooks he does in the lane.
I'll go back and find the clip but Dwight can palm the ball with only a few of his fingers. Remember the opening game vs LA (first one against Kobe) when they got into a tussle dwight was palming the ball while point his fingers at kobe. it was like his thumb and other three fingers still palming it was crazy.
Then there should be no reason why he can't do OT moves while palming. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bxc5-u02Jq0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Dwight has worked with Hakeem since like 2010. He uses a lot of the things he was fought. For example, jumping into a pass in the post so you can quickly get by a guy. He does that a lot. Also a lot of the hooks he does in the lane.
Which is still trying harder than your troll idiotic posts. Having a negative +/- in a game means you didn't contribute enough value to your rotation to the point where your unit was outscoring the other team. So yes it still matters.
So then explain Howard -9 and Harden +2. You referenced a particular time in the game where the team played well without Harden. What about the rest of the game? Something happened that led to the final +/- numbers, period. Stop cherry picking to support your argument.
No it doesn't. It's useless for one game, which is why this stat is used with many adjustments over long periods of time
I can tell by your posts that you don't watch games at all. It's like you're posting from another parallel universe.
