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Bruce Deng and people don't even realize he got that back surgery right before he started the season with the Lakers..it's the same injury that killed t Mac career
21hho There's no such light injury in back injuries. Most of them dangerous and painful. Especially Lumbar Radiculopathy. If you injured your L1-L5 spine that's most be painful injury you ever get. Because these discs bear the most weight and so many nervous tissues in there. All of your lower body central nervous system going there. I experienced so many injuries sprained ankles, Achilles tendon injury (3mm tearing), same time broken wrist and L4 spine disc slip. I don't feel my broken bones. But back was killing me. Most unbearable painful injury was back injury. i can't even move or breath heavy. Yeah, i won't amazed if Howard can't move like his best years.
Orlando was actually ahead of its time, i think people forgot they were like GSW. Dwight was the commander of the post, but he was surrounded by awesome 3pt shooters. Rashard Lewis, JJ Redick, Turkoglu, Jameer Nelson all shot near or higher than 40% from 3, and shot a lot of them. The whole team was shooting over 2000 3s every season, and GSW for example last season shot 2800 (Steph shoots 12 3pt shots per game which is crazy). If they found a Steph Curry, Orlando would have won at least a title with Dwight because that elite inside-outside combo would have been really hard to defend against.
This makes me appreciate Howard more, because today centers be shooting to many jumpers. Centers should be posting up, pick and roll, and rebounding under the goal.
@@shuntavaisjohnson86 nah, i mean maybe you like that playstyle more, but its just not efficient anymore. the ONLY big man that is good without shooting 3s is gobert, and that is only because he is so dominant on defense that he can basically do anything on offense and he would still be effective.
@@Max-me9ol I would say that post play is efficient if the right guys are doing it. Most of today's power forwards and centers simply don't have the skills necessary to play bully ball (e.g. post moves and great footwork). Even if you want to argue that post play may not be very efficient during the regular season, it is still a higher percentage shot than a 3 pointer, which makes a big difference when everything is on the line.
Bro look how this man jumped off the floor on defense and offense.😭 Prime Dwight would give Jokic Hell don’t let these media outlets lie to y’all this man was a Alien especially on defense💯
Bruh your age perfectly aligns with the post 2006 era basketball (DH, Rondo, CP3, Durant, Rose, Westbrook, etc..) no need to justify being a millennial when their era of basketball is meant for millennials. But yeah the 2nd part I agree, kids nowadays just think of Dwight as an athletic fruit pebble
they were never really bad players they just fall from their primes due to age and injuries, but given the right moment and they are pretty solid players.
he used to play like a more explosive and athletic Shaq in the post. I could never understand why people would say he was a bit soft and did not take the game seriously; every-time i saw him play he was ferocious and always looked like he wanted to destroy the opposing big men.
he let people like shaq get in his head and in LA when shaq started the peak of his Dwight slander mocked how he needed pick and rolls to score in the lakers system so him and dantoni fell out and he had chemistry issues in houston too after that he just got older and dealt with injuries
Maybe on some forms of legal PED's that can accelerate growth but usually they would take specific legal PED's to accelerate recovery not so much hypertrophy to heal for game times. His shoulders are genetics, he has big muscle inserts in his shoulders so they naturally are bigger. Some people just have the genetics for it, some are not as blessed. It's kind of like calves, some people just have genetically great calves, some have toothpick calves - they might be similar strength, but the muscle inserts between the 2 would be different.
in 2011 your saying old , fat , slow Shaq was the best in the NBA .You know that's when Shaq was on the Cavs . Yao Ming's career was over by this point and this was his last season where he played 6 games .
yea but all that weight is what ultimately shorten his nba career. only if he would of taken better care of his body and eat more healthy instead of all the mc donald burgar. he would of been able to play at a high lvl for much longer. his career pretty much was done even before the 2006 championship run. he was out of shape got really fat and was injury prone a lot. 2005-2006 shaq was a shadow of himself. the man that was once known as superman was long gone and in it place was a fat dude that was breathing heavenly and could barley run full court. shaq could of been even more greater then he is now if he would of just taken care of himself more. in my mind if the dude would of just taken care of his body properly and stay in la with kobe. shaq would of gotten at least 7 or 8 championship. that is how great i think he could of been. but the dude would not stop eating junk foods and would not listen too teammate advice to staying in shape and eat healthy. namely kobe told shaq fat ass to stop eating and start working hard and shaq did not want to hear any of it from kobe. so they got into a argument witch ultimately result in shaq leaving la. man what a tragedy.
This is the Dwight I'm used to see when I'm still a college student. Man! defenders were helpless down low. Those emphatic blocks, nasty dunks and put backs. Pre injured Dwight was a beast. He lost his athleticism after his injuries and he didn't master two or more post moves efficiently where he can rely on. I'm just happy he's doing great things in LA now. Best of Luck
That little spinning left hook was unguardable. Why he stopped using it so much, i have no clue. Even without an advance post game, there was no reason why Howard shouldn't have been able to score atleast 26 ppg.
Eddie Thomas I feel like the success of that shot relied mainly on his athleticism. After he messed up his lower back, the shot probably wasnt as effective.
Prime Dwight was a freak of Nature.Very fast ,very strong.He holds the record for bench press in Nba also the highest vertical reach point ever touched by an Nba player.Except Wilt there was never an athlete like Dwight.Sad that injuries , lack of confidence,lazyness and the evolution of game changed his career for the worst.Also some ball hoging teammates didnt help.His first 2 years in Houston are very underrated.Carried them into 2 playoffs until Harden decided to hog that ball and it was never the same for Dwight.
Was so athletic sad to see what injuries do to players , still amazing rebounder . Miss him on Rockets wish he would have accepted his role like Clint Capela
The Beard you don't think the same way when you are drafted somewhere and have no skill and when you are 3 time DPOY and made it to the finals and Dwight is not the kind of players that deserve to spend his time on pick and roll
@@kingphil4073 In 2015 Dwight was a come up. He should've accepted his role. He doesn't deserve special treatment for being a used to be. He was good until 2011
Well didnt the Orlando Magic hire Patric Ewing ? And you are right they had Tobias Harris I know he plays the forward spot, but he was looking big and strong, they've had Aron Gordon who got robbed out of his dunk championship, and then they had Vucevic his game came out nice, seems like they know how to train big guys. Of course then you had Shaq and Dwight Howard.
Orlando was the perfect fit for him. He put LeBron and them out in 2009. He could've done it again. Wish he would've stayed and they built around him a few more years. Dang...
Seeing him go against old shaq is just awesome for some reason. He wasn't going to be a 28 and 15 guy like shaq wanted. He was arguably the best lob finisher and shot blocker ever . Still deserves the superman nick name for that.
I miss this Howard. After joining L.A Lakers, his performance dropped by a lot. He was good in Houston but I can tell that he really loves being in Atlanta and seeing how he is performing gives me the hope that he is going to unleash the old beast in himself again.
I always felt from 09-12 Dwight at the height of his powers was the most unstoppable NBA player. Physically, he was unstoppable down low, offensively and defensively and won 3 consecutive defensive mvp awards.
now in 2020 looking back at him in 2010, this dude is a beast and one of the most loved guys in the league, too bad the magic did a bad job in building a team around him
Yo I’ve been saying this for years Dwight never really fell off he just had some years where he played through an injury. He should have sat out the year he play with the lakers when he BROKE his back. Man only missed like 6 games that year and still averaged a double double and made the all star team. And was top 5 in rebounds and blocks that season. People only hated on him because the lakers lost because Kobe and all the other guys got hurt by the playoffs. I wish people would stop being so naive to stats and stop believing rumors.
I think we usually get the MVP award right, but this is the one time this decade (so far) where I feel we gave it to the wrong guy. Dwight was a monster.
Are you saying Derrick Rose wasn't the MVP? You're *insane*. Dwight's team was crazy good, a bunch of really good players and even a good bench. Rose carried a team of mediocre role players with the second and third scoring options being the decading Boozer and Deng, and Noah who was a beast sure, and he made them play unreal good basketball and he was REALLY effective and made them get W's and that's what it's all about.
@@mcfuckinanotheraccount808 LeBron and Howard had better numbers. And the Bulls were a defensive powerhouse; Rose carried the load offensively, sure, but their defence was what separated them.
@@CoachEagz as i said, they had great defenders. Noah was a monster on the boards and defense, but never a scorer. Rose's season was amazing because he was their ENTIRE offense. Also, an elite defender who only defends but doesn't score much is arguably a role player nonetheless, even if he wins DPOY. Look at Andre Roberson, dude's elite on defense but a role player nonetheless.
This dude used to be my favorite player even as a laker fan i liked his physical big man game over kobe. Was excited as hell when he was traded but obviously didn't end well.
I'm just gonna say it , for too long I just seen Dwight as some random but then I payed (not sure if I spelled that right) attention to every thing he does and he's a f****** beast - no a machine that is in my opinion a whole top 5 center/power forward easily
