Why Dwight Howard isn't Dominating Offensively

Dwight Howard is a man, a beast, an absolute monster, defensively anyway. After last night's win against the hapless Golden State Warriors, the Magic barely escaped with a 117-109 victory. People look at me and ask "Are you stupid?" And I'll tell them "ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!" Last night was another prime example of why Dwight Howard will never be as dominate as people make him out to be. I'm a Magic fan yes, but a Dwight Howard fan an emphatic, NO! People say how much he changes the game on both ends of the court and I say he changes one end not two. If you watch Magic games like I do then you know his liabilities on the offensive end. When you go to the line an obscene amount of times like Dwight Howard does, 42% from the line is an absolute joke. Dwight last night against the Warriors should have easily dropped 60 points against a team with no front line, and all the trips to the line. I'm not saying he needs to average 90% from the line but here are a few examples, Nene shoots 65%, Marc Gasol 70%, Joakim Noah 79% and he has the worst shooting form in the NBA outside of Shawn Marion, and finally Tyson Chandler at 78%. What this shows is that both offensive and defensive big men are hitting free throws at a higher percentage than "the most dominating big man" in the game today. If he has worked so hard all year on his free throw percentage then why is he shooting a career low, and that's just at the line. With the ball in his hand he still turns the ball over at a high rate, he still doesn't have any solid post moves down low, there is no skill to him on the offensive end. He is very limited in what he can actually bring a team as an offensive force outside of brute strength, and even with that he still gets called for his fair share of offensive fouls. I'm not saying he's not a difference maker on both sides of the ball, but don't call him the best big man in the game if he can only produce consistently in two areas, help defense and rebounding. Dwight Howard should average every night at least 28pts and 12rebs. There are no need for excuses for you to be in the league for 7-8 years and not improve significantly on the offensive end. If you wanna dominate hire Shaq to help your game out, since he wants to follow in his footsteps so bad.

NBA All Star Game Is Just a Business

You know there are things in life that we as fans like to enjoy, you know those once in a lifetime events that you have to experience for yourself. New Year's in Times Square, Walking along the Great Wall of China, you know things you must experience at least once. For sports fans it's things like the Super Bowl, I've been to three, the Summer Olympics, seeing the friendly confines of Wrigley Field, even being a part of Wrestlemania, but there is one that I have been anticipating for quite some time the NBA All Star Game. Each year a city is awarded the opportunity to host the event, but yet this is not an event for the fans of said city. The NBA All Star Game is here in Orlando this year and everyone is excited about the opportunity it presents to experience the event, but in an 18,000 seat arena only around 3,000 of those will be available to the people who live in the city, and even those seats are only available to those who have season tickets here in Orlando. If you've never been to a Magic game you know we have perhaps the worst fans of any contending team in the league, maybe even some non contenders as well. Most season ticket holders here are big money lawyers or doctors who go to games just to go not because they're fans but because they have the money to do so, leaving people like me, the true fan who makes little money compared to the big money people, out in the dark with no opportunity to check out the game they love on the one stage that brings them all together. Now this will be great for the city in terms of economic boom and it shows off the best arena in the world and maybe this will attract someone to come play with Dwight Howard before he leaves, but what about the real fans of basketball? This shows that the NBA is just a business like any other who only cares about the money and not the people who gives them their hard earned money. It's upsetting to go to a game meet a season ticket holder who doesn't know who Glen Davis is but is sitting lower bowl on his iPad 2 making adjustments to his stocks. These people sure they can afford it and sure they can spend their money however they want, but for the little guys like myself who live here in the city have to resort to contests and giveaways in order to secure tickets before shelling out 1,000 dollars for an event we can appreciate more than the big money spenders here in the city. It goes to show that, just like the lockout, it's all about money. Corporate sponsors and their families, players and their families, celebrities and their families all will flock here to occupy our arena on a night where the city itself should be rewarded, instead gets over looked for the almighty dollar.