I know another article about howard but this one is intersting Buck Harvey: Who confused Dallas' Howard? Those who stood around him Web Posted: 06/20/2006 12:00 AM CDT San Antonio Express-News DALLAS ? Dirk Nowitzki kicked everything in his path, which is just like a World Cup host. Mark Cuban, according to the Miami Herald, screamed "an endless string of obscenities at officials." And Avery Johnson? He embarrassed himself with a podium meltdown. When Johnson taunted a reporter Sunday night instead of answering a basic question ? even telling the reporter not to "stutter" ? he showed a side that most in San Antonio hadn't seen. This. From grown men. On the same day Phil Mickelson lost the U.S. Open and said, "I am such an idiot." But the Mavericks did more than get angry Sunday night. They might also have influenced the outcome with their anger. At the end, they howled when a call went against them, with Cuban cursing and Johnson protesting. Funny. That's when Josh Howard signaled for a timeout. Howard isn't innocent in this. If anything, he is the symbol of what went wrong for the Mavericks in Miami. Howard struggles to score one basket in any fourth quarter, and Dwyane Wade, his draft-class opposite, can't stop scoring in the fourth. The Mavericks also made 18-straight free throws Sunday night ? then missed four of their last seven under pressure. Howard clanged two with 58 seconds left in overtime with Dallas ahead by one. Howard's statistical karma has disappeared, too. Before arriving in Miami, the Mavericks were 25-0 this season when Howard scored 20 or more points. Now they are on a 0-2 streak when he scores 20 or more. Furthermore, Howard joined the Dallas tantrum, according to an article on ESPN.com. A writer asked him a few questions about his timeout request, and Howard said: "What am I saying to you right now, dog? Please, don't come off on me right now because I'm going to come off on you, and I'm not in a great mood right now. Get out of my face, man. Get out of my face." But there are several things to consider, and one is about how locker rooms influence young players. Given the tenor of the us-against-the-world Mavericks, why shouldn't Howard act like everyone else? He didn't several years ago when he made a worse mistake. Then, in the final seconds of a tie game against Maryland, Howard did a Chris Webber. He signaled for a timeout Wake Forest didn't have. A technical foul followed, and Maryland made the free throws to win the game. Later, choking back tears, Howard said, "I just wasn't paying attention in the huddle. That was it. I let down my team." That's the Howard most know. He's a decent guy. Sunday, he was a confused one. Then, between two Wade free throws with 1.9 seconds left, a ref signaled that Howard had called the final Dallas timeout. That meant the Mavericks would have to travel the full 94 feet for a last shot instead of being able to inbound within a jumper of the basket. An NBA official told a pool reporter that Howard twice called for the timeout. Howard denied that. Before his get-out-of-my-face speech, Howard said: "If that's what he's saying, that's what he's saying. I know I didn't call a timeout twice. I didn't even say nothing to anyone. I just made a sign like that." Howard placed his hands in the shape of a "T." That's how, of course, coaches and players signal for a timeout. Now, Howard gets Leon Lett treatment for this. But was Johnson clear with his instructions? Or was he preoccupied with what had happened seconds earlier when Wade drove through seemingly every Maverick until a ref blew a whistle? Afterward, the Mavericks questioned the foul, and the Spurs will love the logic. "I don't know how else we can guard him," Devin Harris said. "He shot 25 free throws, and our whole team shot 25 free throws." A month ago, Nowitzki shot 24 in one game against the Spurs. The lead ref in that one? The same Joey Crawford who was the lead ref Sunday night. To the Mavericks, none of that matters. They prefer not to talk about their mistakes. They prefer to yell, as if only they have ever felt the sting of a call, and they did Sunday night. Amid this chaos, Howard placed his hands in the shape of a "T." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The problem is that Johnson and Harris (Del) had no creative answers for Wade. Surely once he crossed the centerline his game should have been made a miserable experience for him. They were able to put a hand on Nowitzki every time he made a move, where were Griffin and Daniels? How could Wade get uncontested inbound passes? Let's don't spend time talking about timeouts and such, let's be concerned with the 10-15 points Wade was scoring in the 4th quarter when he should have been buttoned-up.
the league is gonna suck now, people are gonna be like "dwyane wade next jordan","heat to repeat", and all that stupid siht and everybody talkin bout how good miami is they said that bout detroit and san ant
