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

Brooks can shoot, he's quick and can penetrate and this is a scoring guard's league, everyone knows that. Lowry can pass decently and attack the rim but he has no jumpshot. So +1 to Brooks potential...

 

Lowry does have a jumpshot, he has been pretty solid on those midrange shots. He has very little range though.

Wait, so Brooks has no upside becuase he is one year older than Kyle Lowry???

 

I'm sure Rafer Alston will have something to say about your 3 point improvement commment. I think J. Kidd also was trying to improve his shot his whole career.

I think Lowry has been in the league for 3 years now compared to brooks just 2. Lowry also got his position taken away by Mike Conley in Memphis. So its not the first time that someone thought that Kyle Lowry isn't all that great. Do you guys think Mike Conley is good? or just quick?

 

Pass first PG??!!!!!
are you kidding me??!!....its posts like this that make me think alot of people on here like to make comments but don't even watch rockets basketball

 

I really think a lot will depend on who the other 4 players on the court are. I'd personally prefer to see Lowry start though, especially if the starting four are the same ones that ended the regular season.

 

I see the op is still arguing his point wrongly again. You may think lowry should start, but adelman watched brooks and hand picked the guy. Lowry did nothing in the playoffs to suggest he's a better guard than brooks. You can bring out some special, jurassic park formula and stomp your feet, but brooks played better and is a better player. Lowry is earl watson. He couldn't hold off conley jr for the spot and he's not going to beat out brooks.We can make a $20 tip jar pledge that brooks will be the starter. Man up or sit down.

 

In my opinion, Adelman had a huge influence on Morey wanting Brooks. Adelman watched Brooks while Aaron was in college in Oregon (yes, I read that somewhere... can't recall where). Coach A still lives there and has at least since 1975, when his career as a player ended. I find it unfathomable that he didn't scout Brooks and push for getting him.

I wanted Lowry to replace Brooks as the starting point, because he was steadier, a better defender, and more of a "pure point." Brooks convinced me during the playoffs that I was wrong.

 

Yeah, I have a lot of insider info, but like clutch has said, we have to be careful cause a lot of people read this board. I told people in so many words that tracy didn't care for playing with rafer, next thing you know, rafer is traded.

Look, unlike yourself, I don't have to tear down lowry to build up brooks. Lowry is a good player, brooks is a better player picked by adelman. Lowry has done nothing to suggest he should start in front of brooks. I don't care what the lineups are, brooks makes more sense especially since you have so many guys that can't get a quality shot without Yao. If they had more guys that could or did, it would be debateable, but right now and going forward, brooks is better.

 

Ricky Rubio is going to be their new PG of the future.

 

I like both players and ain't gonna bash on either. To me AB has better potential as a starter either with or without Yao. Lowry has just been dynamite off the bench since the Rockets got him. The problem is, as soon as teams figure out he's having an off night, they start sagging off of him and dare him to take the outside shot. AB in the meantime, is a handful... after these playoffs, the guy will now command the double team and is still a threat from the outside. Even if teams figure out he's not hot.. they will continue to give him attention. I fail to see the logic in not starting AB.

I think Adelman knows what he's doing.

 

Did you serously expect me to read the whole thread, much less post #1?

 

There is no doubt that Brooks has made rapid gains as a scorer and is gaining in confidence,however an important part of why he is looking better than he really is,stems from the fact that once Yao went down we were left with fairly limited scoring options. Lowry definitely needs to shoot better but he is a better passer.Both of these guys have got to prove that they are starting material,they are backup PG's right now.

 

If McGrady starts for the Rockets next season it doesn't really matter who starts at any position, it is one and done again for the Rockets.

 

I don't care if u believe the jonas brothers over me. Yi was not picked by a coach who had watched him for a full year and had just got a new coaching job with a shaky pg situation. Skile nor Davidson really like Yi and davidson said as much on serious when he talked about being too finesse and not tough in the frontcourt. Skiles has always been a hard nosed player and coach and a guy like Yi wasn't going to mesh well with him.

Like I've said before, lowry is a good player , similar to earl watson. Brooks is a good player similar to parker or nelson. In Adelmans world, the parker/nelson type plays better in his system than a ball dominating, limited range earl watson. If you watched enough basketball and followed the coach, you would know this.