but he is NOT the guy to build a "contender" with, he's ageing and not well, he'll want to get paid a lot and he'd likely be gone next summer, and he's a jerk and a high injury risk, why frickin bother?
I'm with you on this one bro..I just don't think Howard is going to move the needle any more than the guys we have...we're pretty set with bigs and Howard has a ton of flags that make me think he's high risk. Like I said, he's a good trade piece to flip. That's what I'd do with him...he'd never play a game in a Blazer jersey
Why bother with anything. Like I said, take a fucking risk every once in a while. There's not really much drawback, if he jams out then we have that cap space, big fucking deal.
He can score low post, just in the wrong place to do it. Flags are his knee issues. Again, what is the downside? We lose the future production of Meyers Leonard? Dwight poisons the pot?
There's a case for both situations but we really need Gerald Henderson at the wing more than another big, albeit an expensive big.
He is on his way down as a player. averaging 13 points, lowest rebound #'s since his rookie year AND he's only getting worse. I think saying he's "criminally underrated" overrates him a lot. He's not worth getting for what will amount to 56 games (since he can opt out this summer and probably will). Let someone else fall for it.
He's averaging 13 points per game, because his usage rate is down considerably. To generically look at PPG and say decline is covering half the story, but whatever. Per36, his rebounds are above his career average, and better than all but 5 of his seasons. His ORB% is the 3rd highest he's ever had. his TRB% is at or better than his previous 3 seasons. But raw rebounds? Sure. Ignoring last year, which he is better than, his raw rebound numbers are off. But again, ignoring minutes played conveniently. 5th highest TS% he's ever had. 6th best BLK% of his career. He's underrated by people because of his personality, and they're going to ignore how good of a defender he is, and look at raw numbers to try to bag on his offense.
A guy like him in the middle would help hide Dame and CJ so well on defense. Too bad Neil would never pursue him
I fall into the camp of....not liking the guy and doubting his health and character...he's a great player for what he does but my reasons for disliking him are as valid as his numbers are for liking him.
Houston takes 32 threes a game. They've bought in to the pass it around the 3pt line until someone gets a good look style of basketball. When you have a system that takes so many long shots, a guy that gets offensive boards is huge. I think he's doing that for Houston. He'd be great for us, another superstar, easy baskets from the half court offense, make teams pay for guarding the 3pt line. Plus the guy screwed over HCP's favorite team.
