maybe he doesn't. he's done with us, and i think will be seeking a trade. also, what is sad is that he seemed like someone who wants to finish his career as a rocket. wearing that red suit in the playoffs, embracing the role of being our leading scorer, and having the balls to take shots nobody else does... ugh, time to move on. hopefully twill has a chance now for some PT.
What a shame. I've always liked Brooks and up until recently one of the reasons I liked was the way he conducted himself as a professional. He's worked hard to improve, and seemed to be a personable and funny guy. Now this. I understand he may be frustrated for not meeting his own standards of play, and his role on the team, but the way he handled it, was not acceptable. The suspension is fair, and I hope that Brooks learns from it. He's got a lot of talent.
Ignoring wide open teammates as usual? Are we just ignoring reality so that we can all pile in on the guy? I guess the dish he had to Scola to send the game to OT was him ignoring open teammates as well? Aaron Brooks is a good creator -- I'm sorry you can't see it. He can get by any defender in this league whenever he wants to. His height limits his passing ability at times, but he's far from Allen Iverson or the Jamal Crawford that he's made out to be. Yes, Kyle Lowry is more of a 'pure' PG than Brooks is -- but that doesn't mean that Brooks is taking contested shots instead of finding the open man.
What Brooks did is unacceptable, but I don't think he should be traded b/c of this incident. I do think one of our PGs need to be traded b/c there will always be tension about the starting position. Brooks want to start. Lowry wants to start. Something has to give. Someone needs to go.
I agree but you also have to consider keeping the one who is best. You say Brooks doesn't have to be traded but someone has to go. This can be interpretted as you meaning Lowry has to go. I say Lowry stays and you trade Brooks or bench him til the summer and let him walk.
There were two other times in the 4th that Brooks missed wide open passes to Scola and one to Lee. He chose instead to drive to the basket each time. I'm not saying that Brooks is a bad player. He is a scorer who is having a bad season. It happens, but when he is not scoring, he becomes a liability.
He should just say he had the runs, puked, stomach hurt, and he passed out in the changing room... All forgiven.
Great post. I agree Brooks isn't shy about passing to open teammates. Does he occasionally miss one? Yes, all PG's do. He gets a lot of blame he doesn't really deserve. It doesn't excuse what he did against Memphis. It seems like he isn't handling the pressure well. I will say that for his part I understand him being disappointed with the team. For his first years in the league, he improved every year, worked hard to get better, was one of the best at feeding Yao, and stepped up for the team big time when Yao was hurt. Was he rewarded with a contract? No. It is no surprising that he would hold some resentment for putting it out there for the team, and have them not give him a big contract like they did some other players. Now he loses his starting job and feels further disrespected by the team. I don't agree with that take on it. I think he needed to play better to hold on to the job, and once he lost it, he should have handled it professionally instead of becoming bitter and resentful. But I understand where his bitterness is coming from.
Clutchfans is expert in hating point-guards. At some point, every starting point-guard since 2000 has been torn to pieces. (Sura is a possible exception; but he didn't play long enough). Welcome to the front of the line, Mr. Lowry.
Not ignoring reality, just generalizing. Even Yinka Dare was able to get an assist in his career but we can still safely say that he was one of the worst passers of all time. AB hasn't shown any Chauncey-like ability to be a 3 pt-shooting PG who can still make good decisions with the ball CONSISTENTLY, not even close.
I am just plain sick and tired for all the lame a$$ excuses for crap players. I dont care if he is your favourite player but stop trying convince us that feces (Brooks/Bud/Hill) is actually roses. You aint no magician we aint no suckas. TMAc was and is one of my favourite playera but I knew and acknowleged when he was bringin our team down. I wasnt being bias for him and saying no no no its because of the Martians or its because he is SAnata and pixies cursed him with injuries. Call it for what it is guys. A one game suspension is nothing for quitting on his team. He deserves DNPs untill he proves him self again. Ish has done everything the team has asked and has not let us down when being called upon. It would be extrremely unfair on ISh and it would send a bad meesage toi the rest of the team if Brooks was just allowed to come back and play 20 MPG after the suspension.
Uhhhhhh, they haven't given any extensions to any players champ. Anyway, I'm glad that he finally imploded. Now we know for a fact that he didn't/doesn't have the mental fortitude to take this team anywhere.
I have no doubt AB will be traded. He was wrong for walking out on the team but there's plenty of blame to go around in my opinion, and it all starts with Morey. I know some of you don't want to hear it, but Morey's handling of AB's contract was plain stupid. Why would he treat a player who just won the "most improved player of the year" award by not rewarding him with a new contract? What did he expect? And if he planned on trading AB all along then he should have done it when AB's value was high. Again, dumb mistake by Morey. Unfortunately there's no way to repair the damage that's been done which is why I believe AB will no doubt be traded. Of course, other teams know this and therefore the Rockets probably won't get equal trade value in return.
5 year contract extension for a player who then follows it up avg 36.7 FG%? Posters would instead be complaining about Morey's Matt Maloney.
When it was their turn - they did not get extended before their contracts were up. Lowry got matched. So if you want to compare Brooks to them - his time has not not come yet.
