Dwight Howard Discussion: The Taiwan Terror

What?!

 

perfect, I'm glad I didnt burn my swingman Nash/Howard jersey from 6yrs ago

 

This definitely was not what I was hoping for, but I’m not going to get too down on this for several reasons: 1 We still have a championship contending team led by Lebron and AD. For me that outshines this signing significantly. 2 we have strong personalities that can keep his ego in check if he decides to act out. And 3 if he does act out and not do his job, we can cut bait just as easily and move on. Which I hope the front office does if and when that time comes. Were there more desirable options? Sure. But like it was mentioned, he’s still got some game left. To quote Star Wars: “ (He) May yet be of some use to us.” Anyway it is what it is. I just hope Dwight realized he needs us way more than we need him.

 

He's more done than Wilt's corpse.

 

Not a fan of the move, but at least we have an out because I hear the deal is non guaranteed.

 

Might as well get Rodman and Vlade back, as long as they're bringing in players long after their usefulness has been exhausted.

 

Every time I think of Howard, I think of this...



People don't really change. He's a piece of crap. He better stay in line or he will get drop kicked in his sensitive arse.

 

Clipps 3 big man are solid already, that rookie they bought rights to could be an even better ver. of Montrez, all he does is catch lobs and blocks everything in sight, I wouldn't be surprised if he surpasses Zu this season for starting role with todays modern O.

 

We really just signed this guy on Kobe’s bday?

 

Btw, this is a NON-Guaranteed contract. He has to work hard in training camp to make the roster. Not sure why are there are so many doubters. If he sucks, he won't make the roster, pretty simple.

 

I actually would feel better if we sign Noah as well. We need the depth at center regardless. There’s no way McGee/Dwight play all 82 games.

We would have to cut someone to make the roster spot for Noah... Dudley? Lol what a life. He makes $2 mil for nothing.

 

We're clearly the butt of jokes of the NBA.

 

I wasn’t sold on Noah or Speights as being anything special. Dwight has a higher ceiling if he can stay healthy and fall in line. If he doesn’t, you cut him. If Noah or Speights are gone by then, so what? You just need a big body to give you 6 fouls and some physicality. Koufos, Sejri, Mozgov, and dozens of other players would be able to provide that if Dwight doesn’t work out, and Noah/Speights are not significantly better than any of them.

It also sounds like AD wanted this. So given that this whole center situation is heavily based on us wanting to appease AD and save his body the wear and tear of playing the 5 in the regular season, I think it makes sense to go with the guy AD signs off on.

Also not sure why we’re making a big deal out of the non-guaranteed contract. It’s a smart move and we’d have probably gone that route with any of the options we were looking into. Because none of them were particularly great and worth locking in guaranteed money for, as evidenced by the fact that nobody else wants them. Using the non-guaranteed nature of Dwight’s contract to argue that Dwight wasn’t a good choice just doesn’t make sense.