I think its hysterical how so many are so quick to try to tear down players and find their weaknesses. Can Dwight Howard score with the ease and ability of Tim Duncan, Shaq, or KG? I guess not, but can he do some things that any other human can't? yes.
As a Phoenix Suns fan i have listened to people trash Amare Stoudemire for years about how he can't play defense. Some gripe about it so much as to say the guy is barely average. Give me a break. Amare is the most physically gifted offensive big man in the game. I suppose if you could combine Amare's offensive game, and Howards defense game, you might then have that all around, great, dominant player.
But the guy who has that kind of talent is truly named Superman, not just nicknamed Superman.
This league is loaded with great players, few that are well rounded. Steve Nash is another example of a guy who is absolutely the best on one side of the ball, but gets trashed for his ability (or lack of) on the other side. Fact is, Nash takes a ton of charges, and the way the Suns play, more often than not he is not the guy matched up on the guard torching the Suns anyway. But anyone outside out of Phx looks at a box score, and sees an opposing PG score 27 against the Suns and assumes Nash got schooled.
Shaq and Duncan are great players, cant hit free throws.
This guy is too weak, this guy is too big, this guy is not as agile as this guy. All the while people want to annoint players who haven't even proven themselves yet as the next great player!
Why does it always have to come down to one guy, or 10 guys? Funny how in an effort to support "your" choice for who the best, or better player is, "you" are willing to trash great players to make your case. The NBA is loaded with the top 1% basketball players in the world. As Charles Barkely said, "nobody in the NBA sucks, nobody makes it to the NBA who can't play basketball".
If I werer starting a team today, Nash would probably be my 1st choice at PG...D Williams probably about 4th on my list...If I got "stuck" with D Wiliams...I would be plenty happy! I like Nash's game better, but no way would I trash a great player like Williams, Paul, Roy, Rose, etc to make my points about Nash.