In one corner, there’s Dwight Howard and his fondness for camping out in the lane and demanding post-ups. In the other, there’s John Wall and his unabashed willingness to tell Dwight to move the f*** out of the way.
Howard tallied the third-most post ups in the entire league last year, trailing only Joel Embiid and LaMarcus Aldridge. The Wizards, on the other hand, hardly ever post-up. In fact, Dwight had more post-ups last year (499) than the entire Wizards team combined (462). Markieff Morris led the team with a measly 1.7 post-ups per game (compared to Dwight’s 6.