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Bill Simmons Article on Dwight Howard
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:10 pm
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Reality No. 5: The odds are SIGNIFICANTLY high that Dwight will keep declining
In just two seasons, Dwight's per-game averages dropped from 22.9 points and 14.1 rebounds (2011) to 17.1 and 12.4 (2013), and his PER free-fell from 26.1 (2011) to 19.2 (2013). I looked up the year-by-year PER of every memorable "big" from Kareem on to see if any of them suffered a 25 percent PER drop-off within a two-year span during the first 12 years of their career.
Our results: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (not even close), Shaquille O'Neal (no), David Robinson (yes), Hakeem Olajuwon (no), Tim Duncan (no), Moses Malone (close in Year 10, but no), Kevin Garnett (no), Yao Ming (no), Artis Gilmore (no), Patrick Ewing (no), Bob Lanier (no), Kevin McHale (no), Alonzo Mourning (yes), Chris Webber (yes), Jermaine O'Neal (yes), Charles Barkley (no) and Karl Malone (no).
I am not a Simmons fan but this article was really good.
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Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:11 pm to CunningLinguist
quote:I hope so. frick Dwight howard
The odds are SIGNIFICANTLY high that Dwight will keep declining
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:12 pm to CunningLinguist
I'm assuming he discusses the possibility of him going to Boston?
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:15 pm to CunningLinguist
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Dwight is like Daniel in the Karote Kid.
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:20 pm to droman225
quote:
I'm assuming he discusses the possibility of him going to Boston?
No.
But he does say Howard to Houston makes the most sense.
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:23 pm to TotesMcGotes
quote:I would be extremely distraught if this happened
But he does say Howard to Houston makes the most sense.
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:29 pm to CunningLinguist
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And he rarely out-hustles other bigs down the floor for layups or dunks anymore, something Tim Duncan gleefully exposed during the humiliating Spurs beatdown. Should Duncan (37, nearly 1,382 career games) repeatedly beat Howard (27, 758 career games) down the floor in a playoff game? You tell me.
This was telling.
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:32 pm to mattz1122
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And he rarely out-hustles other bigs down the floor for layups or dunks anymore, something Tim Duncan gleefully exposed during the humiliating Spurs beatdown. Should Duncan (37, nearly 1,382 career games) repeatedly beat Howard (27, 758 career games) down the floor in a playoff game? You tell me.
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:35 pm to craigbiggio
lol.
i don't care if LA keeps DH one way or the other, at this point I'm not sure it's worth it.
i don't care if LA keeps DH one way or the other, at this point I'm not sure it's worth it.
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:36 pm to CunningLinguist
He does take his time going down the court sometimes
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:42 pm to Melvin
Bill Simmons Article on Dwight Howard =
Corporate Bill Simmons bending over to ESPN.
Corporate Bill Simmons bending over to ESPN.
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:48 pm to shuke33
So if Dwight rebounds the next few years and puts up monster numbers:
1.) Will Simmons talk about what a great player he is and he knew all along he was one of the GOAT centers?
2.) Will we disregard this article by saying things such as "Simmons is a great writer but not a great analysist. Let's focus on how well that article flows literature-wise, and not focus on silly things such as the actual subject being discussed."?
1.) Will Simmons talk about what a great player he is and he knew all along he was one of the GOAT centers?
2.) Will we disregard this article by saying things such as "Simmons is a great writer but not a great analysist. Let's focus on how well that article flows literature-wise, and not focus on silly things such as the actual subject being discussed."?
This post was edited on 5/24/13 at 4:50 pm
Posted on 5/24/13 at 4:54 pm to Fearthehat0307
quote:
frick Dwight howard
Posted on 5/24/13 at 5:20 pm to CunningLinguist
Meh, how many of them were coming off of major back surgery AND played with a ball dominant guy like Kobe?
Eta: to be fair, I didn't read the article, just the quot in the op.
Eta: to be fair, I didn't read the article, just the quot in the op.
This post was edited on 5/24/13 at 5:21 pm
Posted on 5/24/13 at 6:06 pm to shel311
If Simmons is wrong then he's wrong, just like every sports media personality/fan is half the time. He owns up to his mistakes at least. He always talks about how stupid he was to say emeka was better than Howard in the 04 draft, but he also was on the durant over oden bandwagon in 2007.
Agreed that who really knows with the back surgery, but playing with Kobe shouldn't have affected his rebounding. In fact he should've redoubled his efforts in that phase of the game and increased his numbers. I think it's pretty accurate to say he should be paid like a top 25 player, not a top 5 player which is basically the point of the article
Agreed that who really knows with the back surgery, but playing with Kobe shouldn't have affected his rebounding. In fact he should've redoubled his efforts in that phase of the game and increased his numbers. I think it's pretty accurate to say he should be paid like a top 25 player, not a top 5 player which is basically the point of the article
Posted on 5/24/13 at 6:08 pm to okietiger
Well, he did nail that "Harden trade sucks for OKC" article.
Posted on 5/24/13 at 6:08 pm to CunningLinguist
quote:
I am not a Simmons fan but this article was really good.
It was actually a stupid article.
Posted on 5/24/13 at 6:11 pm to CunningLinguist
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I looked up the year-by-year PER of every memorable "big" from Kareem on to see if any of them suffered a 25 percent PER drop-off within a two-year span during the first 12 years of their career.
DH is a douche but he was obviously hurt this year. If you think his injury can be recovered from then you should think he's going to be back... if you don't think he'll recover you should predict he will decline in the future. That's the issue. Dressing it up with the aura of analysis doesn't make sense if you aren't addressing the primary issue.
Posted on 5/24/13 at 6:15 pm to lsu480
Shouldn't you be lying about beating up Patrick Wilis or something?
Posted on 5/24/13 at 6:30 pm to CunningLinguist
I would love to see the all-knowing, all-mighty, Bill Simmons become GM of any team. What a joke that would become, 4 years of his "But his PER is amazing". The team would be an absolute joke.
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