Post#186 » by dsg2021 » Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:11 am
It'll be great for him to finally own his destiny this summer even though LAL was on his "God's destiny list" too. There's no scenario where he's not locking himself into a 4-5 year max for good, where ever it is.
He should learn to speak up against Kobe, doesn't have to match his tone or ferocity, just say calmly he's getting way too much touches and is a ball hog. Then say you have nothing else to say until you see it improving. Kobe probably will retaliate but Dwight is the FA and strategic one guy here. The worst case scenario, make the list of trade teams (BK only or w/e else) and walk out. Because no one is going to trade for Dwight at 60-70% healthy and for a couple months or so only, it's too different than the 1 full season of contract leverage the Magic had with trading him.
I always think the team should be run by Nash, he would PnR and feed Dwight the ball a ton in the first 2 or 3 quarters or so. Kobe would drop to something like 24 PPG but gather higher efficiency marks. The tempo would be slower but also more calculated. We've seen Dwight. The more touches and confidence Dwight gets, the less his TO's become and the higher his FT%, AST, and defense-anchoring becomes too. The biggest thing the Lakers are missing is that the Magic had always gotten into the FT bonus pretty early in every single quarter because of Dwight alone, this is an incredibly large advantage for the team especially for Kobe the most now if he actually fed him. None of this his back was turned pu ssy excuse (that Kwame sh it aint gonna work on a proven player like D12), tell Dwight to get the feed pass and actually do it with Nash. The big trick of it all is that, the Kobe time is still needed, but it happens in the 4th quarter when Dwight has the FT bonus or close to it and Kobe gets a little more game energy saved up from deferring. This is where I see the Lakers turning Dwight into a relative garbage man and letting Kobe (Nash and Gasol also to a lesser degree) close out the game, getting his 30+ PTS if he has to for the win. But when the LAL team hit literally halfway through the season very lottery-bound, I guess I must be oversimplifying or overlooking something here in how their offense should be run. The Lakers are coming on too late so who cares.