Still Trying To Find My Place

Posted By: Dwight Howard

So far camp is going great for me. I’m having a lot of fun playing with all these older guys, getting accustomed to playing with guys like LeBron and Carmelo, pretty much just being out here and being part of the team.

I really don’t know these guys on a personal level, so it’s different. Most of them are much older than me, so I’m just trying to fit in and get a spot with these guys.

That’s probably been the toughest part, finding out where I fit in. We have a lot of scorers, and even though I’ve been working on my offensive game a lot this summer, I think that my role for this team will be rebounding. That’s one thing that I’ve really been looking at over the past couple of days. They’ve had me matching up a lot against Elton Brand. He’s an old school player who knows all the tricks. It’s been awesome seeing how these other guys play and do different things.

And playing under Coach K has been an experience. The most impressive thing about him so far is just his will to win. Watching him when he was at Duke, I thought he would be one of those coaches that really stayed on his guys and worked his guys real hard, four hour practices, stuff like that. But I see now that he is laid back and that he wants the best out of you.

After a few more practices we’ll be ready and looking forward to competing against other competition. So far we’ve only had one real scrimmage game and we really played hard against each other. If we play hard like this against each other, we’ll be ready to play anybody.