Bravo Lowry believers. Those who stuck by the idea that Lowry should start, even when Mr. Brooks was at his very best. Bravo... Here are some great quotes from the superior basketball minds on Clutchfans... :grin: I would like to give a shout out to Choujie, who consistently dominated DaDakota and friends in every Lowry thread that I looked at, even when Brooks was at his best and Lowry at his worst. Check out this well written post by BrooksBall, which turned out to be right on the money. See the responses from "knowledgeable fans" below. Great reading...
Lowry developing a 3 pointer is a game changer. I am happy to see him and the Rockets doing well. The thread however is stupid and over the top.
I was impressed with Brooks early on, but I vouched Lowry as a starter late last season when it was obvious Lowry can control the tempo really well. There should be some crow eating to be done, some pretty sad personal comments spewed around there.
You know, to be fair... most of those comments were probably made before Lowry started coming on as a player in December, or maybe before Brooks came back from his injury and it was obvious he wasn't his old self. I don't really post on the board that often, but I probably would have been one of those players saying Brooks was better a year ago. Most of those quotes that were made have an element of truth to them. Lowry one year ago shot under 30% from beyond the arc, never had shown the ability to score in bunches (this was still true IMO until right before the all-star break). So while he was good on defense, on the offensive end he was only good with the ball in his hands. The same couldn't be said for Brooks because he could stand out on the wing and hit the 3. Lowry drastically improved this season. Had Brooks not gotten injured, we might never have seen this from him. In the same way Brooks' confidence dropped when he lost the starting job, Lowry's confidence probably didn't hit it's peak until he was handed the job.
Mad props for you OP. I chuckled especially on those who disregard him without giving him the chance. He's given the chance to start and he's dominating across the stat board which is something AB will never be able to do. Now where's AB supporters? All hushed up in their little corner. Lowry has shown a lot of glimpse of talent throughout the season (last season). He was given a chance this season and has proven it. This isn't another MIP season. This is where he's doing what he can be doing at a consistent level.
This is dumb. That was a totally legit argument at the time. No one could know that Lowry was going to improve so much and AB was going to drop so fast.
Wow that must have taken a lot of time to compile all the Lowry haters lol. But thank you! I have liked Lowry ever since he played his first game for us; I never paid attention to him as a Grizzlie. When he first started this year he was a below average starting PG, but since the trade deadline wow. He's making a lot of people look good now, first and foremost the guys who acquired him. But just to preempt all the people who might have thought Lowry supporters were synonymous with Morey apologists, I'd like to say that you don't need to support every move Morey makes to like a guy like Lowry (and of course that's easy to say in hindsight). I mean just use your own two eyes. Morey also acquired Dorsey and Hill and Thabeet, and it's easy to see that the game just does not come to them as easily as it does some others like Lowry, Landry, Patterson. And let's not use this thread to kick Brooks around again. The guy had a good year for us last year (16 PER), he showed up big when we were in the playoffs, he was always a Laker killer, and his defining moment as a Rocket will probably that time he went up 40+ inches in the air to finish off that alley-oop at the end of the third quarter. So fond memories all around. Now our fate is tied to that of Lowry, and I couldn't be happier for it.
Lowry is playing out of his mind.......but Lowry now v. Brooks Last year(the comparison being made in almost every post you quoted)... Brooks still wins...
Also, this is kind of unrelated to the thread, but what is up with the "back up quarterback" syndrome we have going on here? The back-up guy is always better. First it was Scola's being better than Hayes. Then Landry was better than Scola. Pretty soon we're going to start wanting to start Patterson over Hayes or Scola (a move I wouldn't be against actually). You guys wanted Brooks over Alston. Then Lowry over Brooks. Dragic is still young, so in a year or two we will be saying he should be the starter right?
Brooks is a stud, and If he was starting he would still be a stud. This thread is for the people that correctly concluded that Lowry was the perfect fit from the beginning, and for the people that put a limit on his abilities.
