Dwight Howard has whined and cried to get his way as he is finally in a bigger market and will finally not be the only talent player on the team and the pressure will not only be on his now unlike his career so far in Orlando.
The thing about Dwight Howard is that he will be in for a rude awakening as he has had the world at his feet and in LA he will be taught a few lessons and here is a list of things he will learn:
- He is the boss as that is Kobe in LA and everything happen through Kobe and Mr. Nash is not a bad second in command and that is team effort to get the prize (the championship) and trust me that Kobe want another ring and the only reason Nash is in LA is for the ring.
- Kobe has been Howard before and he knows about wanting to be an one man band a.k.a. Shaq who and when he was by himself it was no fun as he would put up huge numbers and no championship and right now he will take less numbers for a championship and Howard will need to get to the promise land.
- right now Howard needs to learn about public relations as his indecision made LBJ's decision a classy move which is hard to do and LA one of the few places where he will find a group of people that can teach him what to say and more impotently what not to say. Kobe is in a small group who is contently under a massive microscope and handles himself as a class act and Steve Nash is one of the classiest players in the league because he say no future is Phoenix for him he said all the right things and basically behind him moving on and he used Toronto to get more from other teams I do not know if he will be booed by Raps fans and they boo anyone who does not like team. Finally that guy the former Ron Artest until that Westbrook situation he was a model player as a Laker and that is hard to do especially go into the stands and beat up paying customers.
- There is no I in team - On the Lakers everybody in the starting lineup is very very talented player and everybody will get their turn with the ball so if Howard is asked to focus on D that is what he will need to do. If he is asked to just wait for the ball to go up and for him on a miss get that ball and pass it out that is what he will need to do or if he needs to go up strong with a ball then that is what he needs to do.
- Howard is probably need to take a page out of Kobe's playbook and spend sometime in the gym making himself better and the weakness of this Superman is his free throws and he will need to do better at free throws or he will be sitting late in games when the Lakers have the ball because otherwise he be constantly fouled and sent to the line and it will hurt the team.
I do not know if Howard is a Laker long term but he is for the season and it would be a good thing to learn something there
Tom Mehegan
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