T-Mobile Player of the Week: Dwight Howard
by Evan Dunlap on Mar 29, 2010 6:00 PM EDT
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Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard keyed his team's 3-1 performance last week and has once again come away with our T-Mobile Player of the Week Award.
| Dwight Howard | Pts | Rebs | Ast | Stl | Blk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21.0 | 17.3 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 3.0 | |
 | FG% | 3FG% | FT% | ||
| 59.1 | 60.4 | ||||
| eFG% | TS% | ||||
| 59.1 | 62.4 | ||||
Howard's percentages actually checked in below his season averages, but he exceeded his usual All-Star self in every other category, with the statistics on the top line shown above. He led the Magic in rebounding in each of their 4 games, which included a season-best 24 against Atlanta on Wednesday. He also tied or led them in blocks 4 times. After his 24-point, 19-rebound, 4-assist, 3-steal, 4-block effort against Minnesota, coach Stan Van Gundy marveled at his dominance. "Absolutely, he could win it every year for the foreseeable future," he said in reference to the NBA's rebounding and blocked-shot titles, while noting that Howard "has a chance" to lead the league in field-goal shooting this year as well. "It's really unbelievable."
Indeed, so much so that I've decided to exclude Howard from future Player of the Week contention. He's too consistently great, so to make these awards a bit more interesting, he's no longer eligible. Sorry, big man.
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Dwight in his best Jim Carrey voice
“Aww, nobody wants to play with me!”
"It can be done, you can just crush somebody"
If not Dwight, my vote for this week's award goes to Ryan Anderson
Nobody else really stood out but he put together two really solid performances in the games we won this week.
The "Not-Dwight-Howard Player of the Week"?
LOL. That seems fair.
Agreed with madhjsp that Ryan would have been a good candidate this week. Redick, too.
Still, if this award stays as a standing feature, there are just some weeks you’re going to have to give it to Howard. He just has those strings of games where he is MVP material.
"I've had people say, 'I don't need to check the [player statistics]. I've seen it with my eyes.' Well, I would also say your eyes lie to you sometimes, and some of the guys you may really like and think are really doing things, when you get deeper into it, aren't or vice versa." ~Stan Van Gundy
Dwight has no rivals for the blocks title.
The only way I could see him getting challenged in rebounding is if Kevin Love played 36 mpg… which he probably should be, if he can handle it physically, but oh, those Wolves.
Bass is a kind of fish.
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