![Olajuwon feels Howard can be an even better offensive player with a little more freedom and confidence in his offensive moves.
“He just said I want you to do them in the game, and tell your coach you got a lot of skills and he needs to let you use all your skills,” Howard said Tuesday.
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We’ve heard this story before, and Dwight still isn’t an offensive player. He doesn’t have any touch around the basket. You don’t teach that Hakeem, you just have it.
Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard spent last week in Houston working with Hakeem Olajuwon, continuing to build on the principles Olajuwon taught Howard during a three-day training session last summer.
Last week, Howard went to Olajuwon’s house every morning to work out at Olajuwon’s private court for several hours. The two big men not only worked on Howard’s post-game footwork and mid-range shooting game, they talked about Howard keeping a scorer’s mentality and ways for Howard to improve his free-throw shooting.
Olajuwon feels Howard can be an even better offensive player with a little more freedom and confidence in his offensive moves.
“He just said I want you to do them in the game, and tell your coach you got a lot of skills and he needs to let you use all your skills,” Howard said Tuesday.
Going into the week of training, Howard said he wanted to work on “shooting more” and getting his free-throw percentage above 75 percent. Howard is a 59.8 percent free-throw shooter for his career, a weakness that restricts his offensive game as a whole.
Howard felt the week with Olajuwon helped him – and now it’s on Howard to build on those principles.
“For me, it’s all about confidence,” Howard said. “All of the stuff that we worked on is stuff I’ve been doing my whole life.”
[Orlando Sentinel; H/T EOB; pic via flickr]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpczgvV40E1qbcs46o1_400.jpg)
Olajuwon feels Howard can be an even better offensive player with a little more freedom and confidence in his offensive moves.
“He just said I want you to do them in the game, and tell your coach you got a lot of skills and he needs to let you use all your skills,” Howard said Tuesday.
We’ve heard this story before, and Dwight still isn’t an offensive player. He doesn’t have any touch around the basket. You don’t teach that Hakeem, you just have it.
Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard spent last week in Houston working with Hakeem Olajuwon, continuing to build on the principles Olajuwon taught Howard during a three-day training session last summer.
Last week, Howard went to Olajuwon’s house every morning to work out at Olajuwon’s private court for several hours. The two big men not only worked on Howard’s post-game footwork and mid-range shooting game, they talked about Howard keeping a scorer’s mentality and ways for Howard to improve his free-throw shooting.
Olajuwon feels Howard can be an even better offensive player with a little more freedom and confidence in his offensive moves.
“He just said I want you to do them in the game, and tell your coach you got a lot of skills and he needs to let you use all your skills,” Howard said Tuesday.
Going into the week of training, Howard said he wanted to work on “shooting more” and getting his free-throw percentage above 75 percent. Howard is a 59.8 percent free-throw shooter for his career, a weakness that restricts his offensive game as a whole.
Howard felt the week with Olajuwon helped him – and now it’s on Howard to build on those principles.
“For me, it’s all about confidence,” Howard said. “All of the stuff that we worked on is stuff I’ve been doing my whole life.”
[Orlando Sentinel; H/T EOB; pic via flickr]
