OT What happened to Rashard Lewis?

[yearsago]

Here he was last year killing it. Putting together one of his best seasons ever.

Brought in 22.4pts and 6.6rebs last season.

He gets the freakin huge payday, which I think it's safe to say nobody thought he was worth that kind of money. But good for him none the less.

I'm looking at his situation thinking with Howard he should have more open looks and possibly more shots too because Howard doesn't really have a large offensive arsenal yet.

I'm expecting the guy to go off for 26pts a night and this season his numbers have regressed.

18.2pts, 5.1rebs 2.4dimes.

By the way Kevin Durant numbers 19.4pts, 4.1rebs and 2.3dimes.

And the only explaination I can think of is, he must wear himself out when he goes home at night because he has to wade through all the money he has laying around.

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Hedoo Turkgalo is taking that production that we thought Lewis would have.

[MoGrAdY]

How can he average 22+ ppg when we got Dwight gettin 22 an Hedo 20. He isnt getting as many shots. Hes still overpaid but thanks to him were 3rd in the East. I have no complaints about Shard. He isnt trying to do too much an he knows this is Dwights team.

[PimpORL]

He's playing out of his position. The Magic are playing him at PF, but after tearing it up a couple of days ago he said he's going to talk to SVG about getting more touches and having a bigger role.

[Cammo101]

I have a hard time believing the Magic have many complaints about anything right now. I too thought Lewis would be scoring around 26/gm this season, however, fitting in and making a team a winner is what it's all about (see Ray Allen). Rashard's presense has opened up the floor for Howard and as Ben said, has helped elevate Hedo's game to another level. If Turkoglu went down with an injury, I think you'd see Rashard's scoring rise quite dramatically.

Orlando has no complaints. Shard is playing out of position at PF and that is hurting his numbers some, but it is what is best for the team. He has come in and fit right in and done whatever he needs to win games. Shard is now playing next to an MVP candidate and a borderline all star in Hedo, so it stands to reason that his scoring numbers would be down some. And playing next to Dwight will drop anyones rebounding numbers. Shard has sacraficed his numbers to win game, as good player should.