Brooks can bring offense and hustle. I been wanting him get some pt since we got him. He still is a guy who can impact a game
The Heat figured it out because they have Lebron, Wade and Battier. If Harden plays 40+ minutes, then Brooks won't get much burn because you can't put two woeful backcourt defenders together at the same time. At least McHale won't. And it's hard to do it because Parsons is only average on D this year, and we don't have a good defender at PF either. Although I'd love to see some AB action ... it's not that likely. McHale has pretty much already decided his rotations. And we know McHale is not that flexible unless forced to change.
Well, OKC may be blowing us out every game, so we'll see a lot of Brooks. McHale should have seen the downward trend of Harden's offense, and incorporated the bench guys more in the rotation like Garcia, Brooks, Anderson.
The problem is McHale seems simplistic when it comes to actual strategy or management. Most of us could see several of the flaws this team was playing with being detriments in the playoffs, but McHale went with what he knows and we got blown out.
He's a 36% three point shooter. He had one good year. He did nothing before that, and he's done nothing since.
I don't understand the man crush for a player that has disappointed on every team he has been on since the Rockets and his injury. You think a guy that can't even carry his team in China or Sacramento to contribute over Beverly, who I feel often plays better than Lin?
Brooks is a peculiar player. He sucked balls before he just exploded that one year. He needs to get acclimated, his problem is that it takes him a while. That's why he us led right after he ce off an injury. The guy put up 20/5 for a year and was the reason we took l.a to 7 games.
yea I know, but he was playing really well the season the F.O felt that Rafer should get the boot. It was that playoff series that and starting job that season he proved he could do it.
He helped us in the series because he was a bad matchup for LA going against Fisher and Blake who couldn't keep up with him. The next year he was a scorer on a team where the 2nd best player to start the season was ARIZA for crying out loud. Points had to come from somewhere. As far as his 5 dimes, it is convenient that you forgot to mention the 2+ TO's that it came with. AB was never a good PG nor was he ever even an average passer. He is an undersized shooting guard and a one trick pony at that.
Another note... If AB was as good as you think, the board would not have been nearly as divided about starting Lowry over AB at the time when AB was putting up his fake 20/5 stat line per game. I don't think too highly of Lin and I still think that he is way better than AB will ever be. We already knows what AB brings to the table and when his shot is off, it's essentially nothing that he offers. After his injury, it doesn't even look like he has speed anymore. Even before the injury, he had speed but no penetration ability and the tunnel vision of someone staring through a tube.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>No disrespect to Jeremy Lin. I would play Aaron brooks on Westbrooke. Just sayin.</p>— Steve Francis (@SteveFranchise3) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveFranchise3/status/325751480768413698">April 20, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
When we are willing to listen to a has been, we will let you know Steve. Taking that suggestion seriously (no matter how r****ded it was), why the hell would we replace one average PG with mediocre defense with an undersized PG with virtually zero defense?
