just an interesting fact, Kleiza retires from Lithuanian baketball as he is not planning to play for his national team anymore, even tho he is our best player atm, I can't wait to see the front-line of Jonas Valanciunas and Donatas Motiejunas on summers.. Etc. Lithuanian coach J.Kazlauskas started to play DMO as a C this summer and he was a huge factor of helping us to get those silver medals so it's not a mistery to see DMO playing as C and seeing him playing both pf/c makes him even a better player and increases his value.
D-Mo has been solid when he's not asked to stand outside the arc and jack up 3-point bricks. He can work on that jumpshot over the summer, but for now he should be a full time post up man.
i think he should add more muscle. His post moves are pretty much unguardable and can be go-to play in playoffs, all he needs is more strength so he can better better position. Not to mention if he will play inside it will help him boxout, rebound, defend and so on.
Been saying all season. As long as mchale stop trying to act like casspi is a stretch 4,there are plenty minutes in the 4/5 rotation. All he has to do is rotage jones,howard,and dmo. Howard should play 35 mins a night. That leaves 31 mins a night for jones and dmo. TJ goes out for breather,bring in dmo. Howard needs a breather,bring jones in. Dmo neds a breather,bring howard back. Its not that hard.
It seems this has been the rotation McHale has been going with in recent games. D-Mo should have played more minutes in the games Jones missed, but he keeps getting himself in foul trouble. There will be situations when Parsons or Casspi at the 4 will work, but it shouldn't happen regularly. New D-mo actually protects the paint, not elite rim protection, but much better than Jones and a SF are capable of. D-Mo still has to work on cutting down the silly fouls, he gets 2 fouls every game trying to hedge the PG 25 feet from the hoop. I love his energy, which he has always had, but until recently it was always chaotic. He's getting in there and not just fighting for, but actually grabbing rebounds (11.9 Reb Per 36 minutes over his last 11 games). Hopefully after the Dallas game his post game will start being featured a bit because that has always been his most valuable asset, and why so many of us have been high on him. He's finally doing enough to keep himself on the court without the ball, which is step one, now he can start putting the other pieces in place.
