Who do you want as starting PG next season: Lowry or Brooks?

Face it bro. Nash is not coming. Stop dreaming.

 

What do you do in off season except dreaming?

 

If Lowry can't improve on his shooting for next season he's coming off the bench again. But if he can improve his shooting, he have a real chance of beating out Brooks for the bulk of mins in starting. Brooks is still a front runner because of his scoring which totally was needed this year with TMAC out.

But I definitely like to see Lowry improve on his shots and getting the major starting role.

I love it when Brooks score but when his shots are off. The guy is useless because of his low basketball IQ and terrible passing options.

 

If Morey wills it then Nash will be here next season. Never underestimate the heart of GM.

 

Brooks vs. Chris Paul

Team performance. (PG is the biggest part of a team)
The scores in three games Brooks started vs. Nor:
91:82
95:84
86:66 Rockets won all three.
In one game that Brooks did not start, 88:79, Nor. got the win.

Individual performance:
Chris Paul: 16.7/10 , 35.9%, 35.9 min. His season average (22/11, 50.3%)
Aaron Brooks: 8.3/1.3, 42.9%, 25 min.

 

If this team had dynamic scoring personell, maybe lowry might be a better option, but they don't even with tracy. They have a couple of guys that can be effective without yao offensively. This team has shown tru and true that they get into scoring droughts because of this. I like lowry a lot, but brooks was hand picked by a highly successful coach. That tells me all I needed to know. Lowry isn't going to beat out brooks unless brooks just flops.

 

Could we get Rip Hamilton? I have a feeling Detroit is going to blow up their team.

Rip and Sheed would be great.

 

That's why Lowry need to improve his shooting. If he shoots better, he'll score better.

 

No it is not all on Yao, but about half of it is....some of it is on our passers some of it on Yao not being good at commanding his space.

By the way, I don't think it is Yao not WANTING to do it, I think it is just that he is 7'6" and his center of gravity is too high, and the smaller guys get leverage on him.

It is sort of like Bill Hanzlick used to do to Ralph Sampson, just get low and underneath him and negate his ability to catch the pass.

This is the same thing Hayes does....as well.

Which is why I blame the coaches for not moving Yao around a LOT more....because a stationary target is easier to guard than a moving one...it is clear that Yao can be nuetralized by smaller quicker defenders in the post...I would like Yao to move to the high post and shoot over them...he is 7'6" you know.

And no, it is not low basketball IQ, it is a guy who knows it is hard to get Yao the ball because it has to be a perfect pass to ensure it happens.

It is a team problem.....not a one guy problem......

DD

 

This is where you argument completely falls down...neither Battier nor Artest is a shooter.....per se...and both stand in one spot when they don't have the ball...

Lowry is much more effective with cutters like Von and Landry....and Scola...guys who move off the ball...heck...ANY PG is more effective.

DD

 

Get Nash and the problem is solved. Not only Nash is a better passer, he also can score as efficient as Yao. We don't need to focus on Yao that much anymore, opponent also can't focus on Yao that much anymore.

 

I don't think realize how hard it is to get the ball to a guy with slow feet. Tracy could get it to him because tracy is a great passer and he's 6'9. Those bounce passes by brooks are good passes because they come off ball fakes. Jvg said on the telcast those are good passes cause it comes waist high and the defender has to go through the middle of yao's body to knock it away. Adelman watched the guy for a entire yr and know what brooks can and can't do.

 

Its funny how a rumor is stated how the rockets are interested in Nash and guys on here are really thinkin he is going to be here . LOL. Are all of you really serious?? would you really take a 35 year old pg and let our future be ruined?? What happened to letting guys grow.

 

Off season, man.

But seriously if we can get Nash, why not?

grow is not a sure thing, and Rockets core are all over 30 or approaching 30s.

A championship hope within 2 or 3 years is not ruining the future, waiting for the core to get too old to win is.

 

Ok, I am good with that.....then Brooks goes to the bench.....no problemo....

I just think people are not used to a scoring PG, and are overvaluing what Lowry is doing out there, he is NOT making that many good passes, he is not shooting well and drives to the rim a lot, and gets his stuff blocked...a lot...

He also gets called for a lot of fouls on defense....

I just say..start whomever is better, and right now that is clearly Brooks.....

If Nash comes...well....

DD

 

Wow! Sounds like you are starting to hate Lowry more than Artest already. Everyone seems like they are starting to get back on the AB bandwangon but I ain't. He was good in the Lakers series but he was playing against Fisher. He was still inconsistent in the playoffs including the Portland series. He's an undersized SG ala Iverson but not as good as scoring as AI. Why would we need another starter to look for his shots when we have Yao, Scola, and Artest chucking enough up for us anyways. That's all we need in the starting line-up for scoring and who knows... we could be trading Tmac for someone else later. Lowry is the real and better PG. Only big advantage Brooks has over Lowry is his 3pt shooting. I liked it better when Brooks was on the bench coming in with Von, Barry,and Landry as a spark. Those were the times he seemed at his best.

 

Is that true? I never heard that Adelman was personally involved in drafting Brooks. He watched him a lot at Oregon is all I heard.