Dwight Howard has developed a jump shot!

A video Dwight tweeted of a basketball workout. he hit like 9 of 13 mid range shots on the move. I loved it.

I'm concerned, however, with how that fits into his game. Dwight doesn't have the greatest handle in the game, and if he makes people respect his jump shot, just so he can take it to the rack, I think he's likely to pick up more turnovers. If he got the ball handling skills to play a mid range power forward's game, the shooting would be fantastic. Maybe I'm just not getting it yet. It's late.

Any progress is good progress.

6 months ago farfromfl 5 comments 0 recs |

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None of those shots were contested, though I’m glad he went away from trying to emulate Tim Duncan’s banker. That never looked right coming out of his hands.

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by malars on Aug 17, 2009 10:35 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

thats exactly what was thinking

he really should be having them actually guard him when he shoots

by GoMagic on Aug 17, 2009 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm sure he'll have plenty of opportunities to practice them during training camp.

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by erivera7 on Aug 17, 2009 6:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well..

He still has time to work on it. His free throws still aren’t the best but hopefully it’ll improve. If he can achieve a quarter of Yao’s level of shooting ability, he’ll be unstoppable

by Loh_14 on Aug 17, 2009 12:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs