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Dear Doc,
You know I ride the bench right? I'm aaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the way down to your right in what most believe is an ugly ass suit, almost in the 1st row with the fans. I cheer like a nutcase at times to let you know 'I care about winning and losing.'
I am writing to you because I have taken notes during the game in my spare time. What I want to say is I have no idea why you didn't just order our team to engage Hack-A-Dwight mode in the OT? Or even dare I say, the whole game! I'll even suit up for a 0/0/0 line and six fouls if need be!
Why would you do this? Well you had the best view!
In the three biggest free throws of the season, he bricked all three horribly. And he did this all in OT, with the Magic season on the line while trying to avoid a terribly embarrassing sweep!
The first 2 misses I'm referring to came at 4:27 in OT. Dwight played Superman on the defensive end and swatted away a Rajon layup attempt.
So down the other end we go and Howard is fouled. GOOD JOB DOC! 1st FT? No chance. Far off to the left!
If you were sitting at a TV just then like I was (don't ask), Jeff Van Gundy made a keen observation any real BB fan could see but flew over the head of the other announcers. He verbally noted that Dwight tried to:
BANK THE 2nd FREE THROW IN! 
Are you fucking kidding me Doc? I did this shit in grammar school and even THEN learned never to aim to hit the white box behind the rim on FT's or any other shot. 'Superman' apparently never got this memo.
Well after our team got TWO possessions to score and wasted them (one on a Howard lazy ass pass - he can't pass for shit either), the Magic came down the other end and got bailed out by a Jameer Nelson bankshot 3 that had Orl. ML backers flying out of their armchairs and sending the house cat scurrying up the chimney. Howard missed FT's forgotten! 89-86 Orlando.
Now at 1:30 nursing a 3 point lead with our red hot Ray Allen shooting from the sausage and peppers stand and still making them, Dwight gets a complimentary hack from Perkins with an AND1 to extend the lead to 6:
Again, tries to BANK THE FREE THROW...
So instead of 95-89 making it a 6 point game, it's 94-89 and Vince loses his man. Guess who? You called his number correctly again! Ray Ray nails another three! (all net) We got right back in a 94-92 game!
This sets up a MUST make possession. After a Jameer miss, Dwight gets his hands on the ball!
Here is my question.
Why didn't you order Perkins to tackle him there???
Think about it 94-92...:52 seconds left, Dwight, who can't shoot a turkey the size of Charles Barkley, to the line...
Who in-game bets he misses both? You Doc! If he hits one, Ray Ray is always there and WILL get open.
Instead he makes the shot and it's 96-92 Doc and you know the rest.
Now I'll let you in on Dwight's history at the line show you how terrible this guy really is.
There won't be ONE reporter who will call him out on a 32/16/4 night on 13-19 shooting right?
The problem with this is Dwight thinks he's doing 'enough' after a night like tonight. And that is complete bullshit.
6-14 FT shooting???? He leaves EIGHT POINTS on the table in a ECF playoff game and that is UNACCEPTABLE from the team's biggest star (Vince and Lewis deserve their own police reports for being MIA during this game respectively).
Why does he miss so many FT's?
Because Dwight is modeling himself after Shaq, that is, fill up the box score with points, rebounds and blocks, and use his extraordinary physicality and brute force underneath to disrupt everyone on D and just drop it in the hole on O (did you notice how bad some of his turnaround 4 footers missed?)
)Shaq? Yes Shaq! Dwight is the next Shaq at the line! No wait. He will be WORSE than Shaq when all is said and done.
We all know how bad Shaq is at the line. Shaq has missed almost 5,300 FT's out of approximately 11,100!
But ESPN reported in 2008 that if Dwight averaged his current pace at the time of FOUR misses a game, he not only would EMBARRASS Shaq in terms of who would be the 2nd worst FT shooter of all time, but would most likely break the record for misses in a career held by WILT THE STILT! 5,800 misses!
Well, he is averaging about 854 FT's in the past three years (teams are catching on and hacking him more as he becomes the crown jewel of the offense). Extrapolating out his per season misses based in his averages in the past 3 years, he'll break Wilt's record number of misses by the tender age of 33...a record Shaq is still approximately FIVE HUNDRED FT's away from and he's pretty much finished.
...a record Shaq is still approximately FIVE HUNDRED FT's away from and he's pretty much finished.His career FT% of 59.9% is still approximately 7% points better than Shaq's but right around Dennis Rodman's career average of 58.4% (and he really sucked at the line as you know because you played against the guy).
But when the heat is on, Dwight REALLY folds. In the playoffs, he's a horrid 63-120 this year. Yes ALMOST 60 MISSES and it is only game 5 of the ECF...a 52% FT % 
almost an 11 percentage point DROP-OFF from last year! He is getting worse. Much worse!
almost an 11 percentage point DROP-OFF from last year! He is getting worse. Much worse!Shaq had the stars to miss at the line habitually and still win. Kobe and Wade were 2 of the top 4 stars in the league. He also had two of the greatest coaches of all time for each of his 4 rings (no offense). Why practice FT's with that kind of talent to bail you out?
Well Jameer is not Wade and Vince is not Kobe and Lewis is looking like Lennox Lewis with a basketball at this point. I don't know who they will surround this guy with to get him a ring. So Dwight could exponentially improve his chances at a ring if he just saw he left SIXTY points on the table through 12 measly playoff games. But he won't. If you hear his post-game interviews, he leaves it, "In God's hands."
So Doc, if your reading this. Think about employing your new Hack-A-Dwight game plan WHENEVER HE TOUCHES the ball in Game 5 because, as I just detailed, this guy is HISTORICALLY bad at the stripe (oh and I'm really liking the Boston ML too
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). Thanks Doc.
Your 'pale as an albino whale' 12th man,
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