Brewer and Ariza may resemble each other physically. 6'8 swing players with condor wingspans that play very good D. But their games, especially on offense, are very different. Brewer is a better ball handler than Ariza, more efficient shooting off the dribble & attacking the rim, and he is a leak out specialist of the first order. Maybe the best in the league. Brewer is a much better player off the ball as well, doing many of the little things not seen in stats. Ariza is a much better spot up shooter & 3 point shooter. Ariza is also a smarter defender, who can mirror his man. Both get steals but in different ways. Ariza is disciplined while Brewer is high energy, attacks passing lanes and tends to gamble more than Ariza. Brewer is also the better shot blocker. Bottom line, Ariza is smarter and more disciplined on D while Brewer is smarter on O, cutting and always looking for easy offense opportunities. Love Brewer more because he is a god in transition, offensively and defensively.
Since when did 3 and D not mean two-way? 3 is the offense and D is for defense: two-way. Thing is most of our guys are not 3 and D, because they can't hit the open shot.
kostas had an extremely happy carreer until 23 years old. No injuries, many succeses with the national team, 2 European championships, Greek and spanish championships, constant personal improvement. Finally, this year,his luck run out. Poor personal performance at the World championship, disastrous performance at the NBA and ,for the First time, injuries. I guess when things start going wrong ,everything goes wrong
I don't believe you understand how good you have to be to make a huge impact on a title contending team as a rookie in the NBA. It almost never happens.
You are way too hard. It's not the end for Kostas, not by a long shot. When his playmaking and hustle (steals) is on he's within a marginal percentage of NBA players that can play like that. Don't freak out just because you don't know NBA basketball too well.
Papa looks fine in every aspect of basketball, aside from shooting the rock. He can defend, create off the dribble, pass, run, etc... He NEEDS to get his three pointer squared away though, it is the difference between him being a potential starter, to being a very good 9th-10th man.
Someone came on a while back and it explained it's a Greek Rivalry thing, the guy who posted is a fan of a team who despises Kostas' greek team.
I see. Well it's insane that he go through all the trouble of coming to an American forum to translate and post drivel like that.
He doesn't need translating. Most can write/speak good english (like me). And don't underestimate fanatism. These guys like that dude live and breathe for their team and are complete sad idiots whos only identity comes from the team. Kostas is a good kid and doesn't deserve such crap. Whereas he makes it in the NBA or not.
Why all these insults? I just wrote my opinion , that for the First time , kostas has an extremely bad season I am pretty sure that even kostas is disapointed by his poor shooting and lost lay ups. I ask you where did i say untrue things? Did kostas played well at World championship of Spain? NO Did he ever had two pretty serious injuries in a season? NO Should he be satisfeid by his performance in the NBA, especially his shooting ?NO Is it normal for a two time euroleage winner,with 52% 3p shooting carrer average, shooting 25% in the NBA? NO I love kostas , but this year he plays terribly. I am not idiot, you are blind
The injuries are not serious. His perfomance as a rookie coming from Europe to a different rules league and in a serious contending team is adequate. All your posts is a cycle of trolling and repeatance of critisisms and how much he sucks without ONE good contribution. NEWSFLASH: Even if he leaves the NBA he won't come back to the fanatic ridden and corrupted greek championship. So you can quit trying. You should be ashamed calling yourself a FAN.
Also this is the Rockets forum. Not the Kostas forum. If you trully (doubt it) like and watch the Rockets then lets see you make any other posts. But you are a KOH.
Malakas, think you're extremely overreacting to his post. He really just stated the truth and that this year has been very unfortunate for Paps. There wasn't any hate or trolling in his post.
All this guys posts are the same. He only comes here to post in this very thread to say that K-pap should head home. Every single one of them. I know this type of "fans". They wear teams glasses and they don't see players they only see jerseys.
Prior to Kostas injuring his knee he was a strong contributor for the Rockets. And while I'm well aware there are other factors involved other than Kostas, it seemed to me the Rockets were playing their best basketball just prior to his injury when he was part of the rotation. Since returning from injury he hasn't played as well, but it seems less a physical problem and more that he has lost confidence as well not getting enough minutes to establish any kind of rhythm. I don't think Kostas has had a disastrous rookie season, and I bet there are a lot of team that would like to have him on their roster.
