AB is not traditional point guard so there is not really a comparison to a player like Chris Paul. CP3 is proven to make his whole team better. AB is still finding his way. AB makes this team better when he is aggressive and scores. CP3 makes a decent power forward with a 18 foot jump shot to an all star. He's the reason why NO is in the playoffs.
you're comparing aaroon brooks #'s vs Steve Blake to Chris Paul #'s vs #2 seed Nuggets and Chauncey Billups?? Nuggets are a much better team to begin with too than the blazers.... that's like taking aaron brook's #s if he was in the NBDL cause one man is up against mr big shot and the other guy last took a big shot back in maryland.
Because every time Yao can't get the ball, they blame Brooks. Brooks has his problems, but nobody could/would get Yao the ball the last game. It's on everyone including Brooks, Yao himself, and RA to find a way to get it Yao through the double teams and fronting. Yao has to move around and whenever he does get position, he needs to not wait to get the ball, but instead demand the ball especially if Artest has it.
The OP makes a couple of good points (e.g., Roy and Aldridge going off for 69 pts) but should have left Paul out of the discussion. That takes away any credibility to the post. Brooks isn't even the best PG on the Rockets and neither of our PGs are in the same stratosphere as Paul. If you are going to make comparisons to Paul, Lowry is the far more similar player. From what I've seen, Lowry is sort of a poor man's CP3. They have similar body types, both play a physical game and rebound well, both can finish well with contact around the basket, both have good court vision, both have good hands and can strip balls from bigger players, both are good at drawing and selling fouls, etc...
Yao shouldn't have to move and get position, AB should be able to make the ball dissapear thru the defenders hands and reappear in yao's lap everytime....Every good magician/pg should knows how to do this
Ok i see where they would blame AB.. I agree its on everyone on the team to get Yao the rock. I would think that they would hate Artest more than brooks though...
I’m giving the OP the benefit of the doubt and saying he's just being sarcastic. Stats don’t show the whole story, yet, it's what we base everything off of. Kind of reminds me of our standardized test. Seriously, who would even compare AB to CP3?
Brooks hate? I rather think it's more about challenging Adelman's game/player management when people talk about the PG position. Look, Brooks is what he is, a small guard who has great speed but doesn't have court vision; he is not afraid to attack the rim, but too small to either finish or get fouled. If he can't find his own shot he usually dribbles circles and gives up to another player very late in the shot clock. He just doesn't have the talent to be a pass PG. To his credit, He has big heart and is not afraid of taking very tough shot when game is on the line and sometimes it does go in. What happened in this situation is we clearly have a better PG and people just don't understand why Brooks has to be the starter when the firing power is already enough in the starting line up and what we need from PG position is to organize the team offense, attack the rim and better defense because Yao is slow footed. They need reasons to justify why Adelman has to play his boy as a starter when the other PG in our team is playing better. Thus, the talk, and the so called "hate". Artest is the same story, he does crazy things too, but he's still the best option as a SG in this team, so we live with that. If next season somehow Tracy got back to his old form and Adelman insist to play Artest as starter, watch out the "hate" for Artest. It doesn't mean he plays better or worse than he currently is, it's because we may have a better option at the position
all you guys have proven nothing more than you are r****ds who cannot comprehend. never did i compare aaron brooks to chris paul as a player.. obviously he'll probably NEVER be as good as chris paul. im comparing THE FIRST 2 GAMES ****in dummies. if you have a problem or disagreement with my post then articulate it, but calling ME dumb when you dont even understand my post proves YOUR stupidity. im 100% sure that the hornets would do better the PAST 2 GAMES with brooks stat-line as opposed to paul's. Whever you are throwing away the ball 9 times in 2 games your hurting your team because they lose 9 offensive possessions and have to play more defensive possessions which wears them down. fact is brooks has more points and if you take away his 50 and give him chris pauls 35 then the rockets dont score in the 100s twice (when the rockets score over 100 we are almost unbeatable), do you get the picture? brooks has produced more points and better efficiency THIS SERIES than paul has, so hes been helping the rockets more than chris has been helping the hornets. no coach wants their pg with 9to in two games. again, i didnt say brooks is or can be better than paul, THAT would be stupid, this thread isnt stupid, its very logical and makes sense to those of us with a 3 digit IQ. those who called me dumb are the ones who really DONT know what efficiency means, 5 turnovers compared to 9? thats about 2.5 compared to almost 4.8 per paul is giving up points almost as much as hes scoring them of course it has not been his best series, no ****.. but he SHOULD be playing better even with billups the nuggets are NOT a good defensive team and billups alone cannot shut down "the best point guard in the world" i've seen paul smoke jason kid and much better defenders than billups, paul can blaze shane or ron ron with no problem so dont blame it on chaunceys d. chris paul just hasnt stepped up yet and brooks has.. and there is no way in hell billups can keep brooks infront of him either. speed like that is uncontainable. look what tony parker has done to jason kidd and kidd is one of the best defensive pgs in league history, so paul SHOULD be doing it too, but hes not. bottom line is, RIGHT NOW, in the past TWO GAMES, brooks has been more efficient, more agressive, and more helpful to the final outcome of games than chris paul. and he has also made LESS bad decisions aswell (about 4.5 less) so if you dont like it, keep "flaming" as you all say, and just continue to be dummies and not understanding plain english
well sir that was true in the REGULAR season, but brooks has been the rockets best player in the past 2 PLAYOFF games (besides yao in the first game)
not reasonable at all. aaron scores more than chris, right, but most of the score are not in clutch time. he is NOT a clutch player while chris definitely is.
worse thread ever. a small example of why stats dont tell you everything. we are well aware that youre comparing only the first 2 games. we're also aware that's dumb to even post this. 2 game sample? yeah, even in statistics, that's not enough data to work with.
But how? How do you switch their stat line if they played in switched teams in the past 2 games? Can you even achieve that in a video game, let alone actual games? Thanks for the laugh anyway, and say hi to Tracy for me.
Chris Paul has twice as many assists as Chauncey Billups in the DEN-NOH series. You don't really think he's been the better "PG", do you? That series is all Billups so far.
You can't be serious, if we had Chris Paul, we probably could actually score consistently and even get Yao the ball, when he needs it. C"mon, you are talking about a future HOF pg who has consistently lead the league assist vs. one who has to potential to be borderline All-Star (because of his scoring ability), one day.
