Dwight Howard and his greatness

[PHILA]

Compare team defenses now and then in the 80's. And Robinson? His rookie year was the '89-'90 season. I can't believe you included Walton as part of the 80's....he barely played! In one of his 2 relatively healthy seasons in the 80's, he was on Parish's team!

Parish was a very good player, but you're kidding yourself if you think he was ever a franchise player, or at that level. What made Parish's career great was that he had great longevity and he was a solid all-star player on a winning team, but never as the number 1 guy.

We're talking about centers at their peaks who are on another level than Howard at his peak so far and Parish clearly wasn't that good, much less on another player.

To be fair in '82 a lot of people thought Chief was the best player in the league. Both Larry Bird & Chris Ford said he should have been MVP and he did indeed out perform Bird in the playoffs.

[zORi]

Y'know I actually didn't know DWade305 was RG until this topic......

Anyway Dwight>>Yao

[Dwade305]

Here we are 3 years later and its practically the same Dwight. Where is that big improvement SA3234? Face it your boy is a mediocre, athletic, foul prone, shot blocking center, who in the 90's would have been competing with Kevin Willis for minutes.

[ShaqAttack3234]

Here we are 3 years later and its practically the same Dwight. Where is that big improvement SA3234? Face it your boy is a mediocre, athletic, foul prone, shot blocking center, who in the 90's would have been competing with Kevin Willis for minutes.

Ironically, Dwight improved greatly the season directly after this thread. Put up 23/14, cut down on his fouls and was scoring in the post consistently all year.

He's fallen apart since then and regressed due to all the shit he took for the trade demand as well as the back surgery.

[deja vu]

Anyway Dwight>>Yao

Call me when Dwight averages 25 ppg.