Shaquille O’Neal has been candid about his distaste for the NBA’s new breed of pick-and-roll centers who don’t catch the ball in the post or utilize the jump hook.
Yet, on TNT’s “Inside the NBA” on Thursday evening, O’Neal called the Los Angeles Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan the best center in the Western Conference, no doubt another jab at the Los Angeles Lakers’ Dwight Howard.
Shaquille O'Neal heralded DeAndre Jordan's Thursday performance and called him the best center in the Western Conference over Dwight Howard. (AP Photo)
“I’m going on the record,” O’Neal said. “Best center in the West right now is DeAndre Jordan. You heard it here first.”
Jordan was fresh off one of the best performances of his career with 21 points and eight rebounds in a 103-90 win over the Portland Trail Blazers.
Still, Jordan is the epitome of what O’Neal has pointed out as the problem with today’s big men.
At 6-11, 265 pounds, Jordan has the size to live in the post, but only 28.6 percent of his conversions on offense this season came on the block, according to Synergy Sports. The rest of his production comes on cuts, offensive rebounds and transition lobs from Chris Paul.
Very little of Jordan’s offense comes in pick-and-roll scenarios (1.6 percent), but that is more a product of teammate Blake Griffin being better suited to set screens and create offense if the defense collapses on Paul.
By contrast, Howard has scored 52.1 percent of his points from the post, with offensive rebounds, cuts and transition baskets making up a combined 30.2 percent of his scores. Pick-and-rolls have led to only 3.2 percent of Howard’s offense, and he could be in for even more post sets with the Princeton system on the way out with the firing of Lakers coach Mike Brown.
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