hey i agree with you on that...then again the broadcasting of professional basketball (especially the nba) has had a relatively short history in China. Also being considering most of the fans that are watching are not living in houston, I guess Yao is the only reason they can relate to the team. so I guess that is the reason for all the yao this and yao that. I don't think that is racism. In fact if the rest of the team was pacific islander, they will be treated the same. It is just that for those guys, yao is the only reason they support the team. I am not standing up for them. I am just stating why it is i don't feel it is racism. It is just the standard of the broadcasters in chinese basketball that is the problem. It is impossible in China to find broadcasters that are familiar with basketball and the nba. So leading to the low quality for those dumbassess on CCTV 5. Over time it will get better. Looking at the broad casting of other sports like soccar, pingpong...it is not nearly as bad.
Lol yeah...Hope we can really lock him up. If he really explodes this year, I really worry that he gonna demand too much. We should sign him early....
It was clear that Brooks played a great offensive game, and yet his +/- was just a +1 (meaning Rockets were +16 when he was on the bench.). Lowry was a +/-. If you looked at the best 5-man rotation today vs Utah, Brooks isn't in it.
I always knew he could score, but people don't normally develop court vision. Somehow this kid has done just that. Amazing.
21 points and 8.5 assists is pretty good. Lowry played well too.... We are lucky to have them both. DD
AB replacing Ron Artest as the hilarious post-game go to interview guy. he is on the nbatv arena link clowning around with Brent Barry, talking some Oregon/USC trash, and as he was explaining the game, he forget Budinger's first name and laughs it off... he said some great things about Shane, Chuck, and Kyle...
Brooks was key to getting us off to a good start in the game. If he didn't make those plays to start the game, we could have been in a hole.
It's getting really tiring see how the GARM has become over-analyzing stats to show a player isn't needed or doesn't deserve to be in the position they find themselves in (on the team, starting, on the bench, etc...) Who cares if he wasn't on the best 5 man rotation. It doesn't matter. He like Lowry contributed to the win.
As much as I like Amare, and as much as I think he'd actually be a success in our system, I don't like the idea of giving away Landry and Brooks for him. Landry, someone else, and/or a draft pick maybe so, but Aaron Brooks is a real up and comer in the league and we can't get rid of him before we even know what he's really gonna amount to. Whoever said he's not a top 15 PG needs to have their head checked. AB isn't top 5, maybe not even top 10, but he's certainly top 15, and if he keeps playing at or near this level all season I'd be hardpressed to name 10 PGs better than him. And he's still not going to be hitting his prime for another year or two! I have full confidence he'll at least mature into one of the top 12-15 PGs in the league year in and year out for the better part of the next decade. But I think his ceiling (which I become more confident of him reaching with each passing game) is as a top 5-7 PG in the league when he's in his prime. He'll probably never be as good as Deron Williams, Billups, Paul, or the elite PGs in the game, but he'll be at the top of the tier below those guys. Brooks will probably never be a great assist man like Kidd, a great defender like Billups, or a point dropper like Chris Paul, but he can use his speed and scoring ability to become a 20+ppger, an above average passer and playmaker, an effective defender, and a threat from the outside that the other team has to truly respect and gameplan hard to stop. Amare is a very, very good PF/C who could probably suit the run and gun system that has emerged in the wake of Yao's absence, and if acquired he could be effective at center in our current lineup, or as a PF when (and if) Yao Ming returns, but Amare is a completely known commodity-so to speak. Unlike Brooks, whose ultimate value is still to be determined over the next year and a half/two years, we know Amare's ceiling because he's plateaued and only has a handful of years left in which he will be in his prime. We know he's a talented, if somewhat injury prone PF/C who can do things that put him somewhere towards the bottom half of the top 10 PFs in a league full of great PFs. We know that right now, he's a better player, and more valueable commodity than Brooks is, but whose to say that's gonna be the case in a couple of years; infact, due to what scientists call "the aging process" Amare will definitely be on the tail end of his prime just as Brooks is entering his. Even if Brooks never matures into a player of Amare's caliber; does it make sense to trade one (two if you count landry-and apparently in this thread we do) of the leagues most gifted young players for an older, somewhat injury prone player who may not even fit in with the team as successfully as it may first seem? And who would that leave us at PG, C, and PF? At center we'd still have Scola, and of course Amare, but if those two guys start at center and PF respectively our depth takes a plunge. Hayes is great, but who can step up and provide the spark and offense that Landry provides off the bench when Amare and Scola are resting? The bigger problem tho would be PG; Lowry is young, talented, and a good defender with an upside, but unlike Brooks who could legitimately grow into a top PG in this league, Lowry's ceiling is more in line with being a gifted roleplayer who could be a solid starter in a few years. If Brooks were traded, and we didnt pick up a PG in the trade who was at least a respectable scoring threat, we'd be in some serious trouble obviously. For a long time the Rockets have been trying to get a PG who can really ball, a PG who is better than just a stop-gap option or a solid roleplayer (like we had with Rafer), and there's a good chance they found a legit championship caliber PG in Brooks-so why go on and give that up for anything shy of a top 25 player in the league, or an Amare-caliber player AND a decent PG to fill the hole that trading Brooks would create?
Since brooks is doing so good, lets package him up and trade for cp3. The hornets are always looking to cut costs.
ok, it's official. tracy and yao have to adjust to aaron brooks when they return. AB is a better fit for the adelman's offense, so those 2 guys have to find ways where they don't impede aaron's game when they return.
Are you joking or are you really that naive? When it comes to you, you're right i made it too general, "THE MAJORITY OF POSTERS FROM CHINA." I'm not referring to chinese americans. DD, and a couple of other posters have already done a search on the posts, i always made it a point to read CF during the playoffs for a number of years and I was utterly ashamed...actually disgusted at how people could be so ignorant. Don't dodge it, you know that the YOF hated on Brooks because of Yao's inability to catch passes, most of it when being fronted. Now that AB is doing good, all of you jump on the wagon. So what now after he has a bad game? LOWRY START FOR ROX RICK ADELMAN BE RACIST threads? What I'm trying to get at is a trend. And kudos to you friend, hopefully I can call you friend if i haven't offended you, for being objective on the matter when you admitted he was hated on. Thanks. TrueBeaner
