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A lot of people had Big Al over Dwight Howard back in the draft on these boards.

http://realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php? ... highlight=

prerak wrote:First of all, those two comparisons you thrown in at the end are horrible. Its like me comparing Paul Pierce and Kobe Bryant and asking if you prefered peanuts or bottle caps.

Second, I do think that Jefferson will be as good, if not a better player than Howard. The way I see it:

1tie. Jefferson
1tie. Telfair
3. Howard

There were also some replies that Howard is a PERIMETER player on offense.

BTW, this 8 page discussion ranges from 2004-2007..

DH's 5 year contract is worth about 15.8 million per year while Big Al is worth 13 million per year.

DH
37.7 MPG
20.7 PPG
14.2 RPG
1.3 APG
.9 SPG
2.2 BPG
3.21 Turnovers
3.3 Personal Fouls

Big Al
35.6 MPG
21 PPG
11.1 RPG
1.4 APG
.9 SPG
1.5 BPG
2.04 Turnovers
2.70 Personal Fouls

theGreatRC wrote:

There were also some replies that Howard is a PERIMETER player on offense.

As I understand it, when Dwight was in High School, he actually had a very complete perimeter game and compared favorably to Garnett. When he got to the league, though, he bulked up big time and almost completely lost his perimeter game.

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To think that he would use that in his game in the NBA is diculous, even if you look at it from a 2004 standpoint. He was lanky, but had broad shoulders and was an athletic freak, you couldn't imagine he'd take you out to the perimeter.

Dwight Howard is on a whole other level. He's in the Chris Paul, LebRon James level for young players.

Big Al's good, there's not many I'd rather have than him, but Howard is one of them.

theGreatRC wrote:^
To think that he would use that in his game in the NBA is diculous, even if you look at it from a 2004 standpoint. He was lanky, but had broad shoulders and was an athletic freak, you couldn't imagine he'd take you out to the perimeter.

Can I use your word diculous?

That was a very interesting read GreatRC...

LOL at Prerak... Telfair? His hype was huge... If he wasn't Marbury's cousin and played in I dunno, Iowa, people wouldn't have even considered him a lotto pick. It is all about exposure, and I think Jefferson didn't have enough of it. I think when you look back on that draft many people are regretting not taking Jefferson earlier. He was a very polished post player( a rarity with young bigs) but were turned off by weight issues and the fact that he posted numbers in a relatively weak state and class.

But Ndudi swatted Jefferson's shot like 5 times!!!

Ebi did show off his post skills against the super huge 6-9, 275 star junior Al Jefferson this summer at the Nike Peach Jam. Ebi played the big man fairly well on the blocks, swatting Jefferson