Comments on: No ‘outward signs of heat on Lawrence Frank’

By: sebastian

sebastian — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:31:40 +0000

And, John Kuester will be his Lead Assistant, drawing up inbound plays.

By: frankie d

frankie d — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:46:32 +0000

interesting thought.
yes, the league has definitely changed the rules to favor wings and more athletic players.
but, i think the change in how so many young guys approach BB – not wanting to be the hulking post guy and preferring to be the slashing, highflying wing – has a lot to do with it also.
i still think a guy like akeem the dream would get his points and dominate as he always did.
there just aren’t that many guys who want to play that role anymore. hence, the odds of getting a guy like the dream out of any incoming class – either at the college level or in the pros – is lessened.
both mourning and ewing might definitely see a drop in scoring. neither was all that skilled offensively.
take ewings fadeaway away and he was useless. his footwork was horrendous. mourning didnt even have the jumper.

By: G

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:33:39 +0000

That goes both ways though. Current rules favor perimeter play over post play, so those high scoring numbers would go down with less touches. Ewing & Mourning might only have been a 16 ppg scorers in the current NBA.

By: frankie d

frankie d — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:03:28 +0000

i do think howard benefits from the change in the league. now, many of the guys who would have been centers and back to that basket types are face up PFs or guys who simply do not want to play down low.
he is an excellent defensive center who is subpar offensively.
sort of like a slightly better clifford ray, who gets more touches.

By: G

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:23:04 +0000

Really? Take Dwight’s numbers last year, 20.6 ppg, 14.5 rpg, & 2.1 bpg, and put them up against the top centers in the ’95-’96 season (a REALLY good year for centers).
Shaq – 26.6 ppg, 11.0 rpg, 2.1 bpg
Olajuwon – 26.9, 10.9, 2.9
Robinson – 25.0, 12.2, 3.3
Mourning – 23.2, 10.4, 2.4
Ewing – 22.5, 10.6, 2.4
Mutumbo – 11.0, 11.8, 4.5

It really falls off after Mutumbo. Dwight falls somewhere in the middle of that group, so don’t say he would be a ham & egger in the 90s. That’s just stupid.

By: G

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:00:08 +0000

By the way – there are about 12 levels of player in between Dwight Howard and DeAndre Jordan. They’re not the same type of player. One is an All Star several times over, an Olympian, and was one of the 5 best players in the league a year or 2 ago. DeAndre Jordan catches alley oops, blocks the occasional shot and not much else.

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:33:35 +0000

That’s one of the dumbest comments in the history of the internet.

By: FireFrank

FireFrank — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:11:49 +0000

In the 90s Dwight would be a back up defensive center to come in and hack a shaq

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:51:08 +0000

Yeah, I long for the days of Jon Koncak, Luc Longley and Joe Klein too. Golden age of big men.

If Drummond is ‘only’ a Dwight Howard type of player, the Pistons will be just fine.

By: MIKEYDE248

MIKEYDE248 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:50:55 +0000

One thing bringing in a new coach now would be that it might help influence a player into coming here that normally wouldn’t.