Are you comfortable with Brooks as starting PG in the playoffs?

i am more comfortable with a brooks that is looking to score.
i would like to see AB (possibly coming off the bench) looking to penetrate, looking to push the ball, looking to put up threes. i would like to see him offensively aggressive. more like how wafer comes into games with a sort of single mindedness for the basket.

AB bringing the ball up and getting us into our sets, well, frankly lowry does it better. AB is quicker and a better three point shooter.

 

You were on AB's bandwagon. Don't assume for others. fixed.

 

well...AB in the playoffs last year he went 0-10 from behind the arc. those are luther head numbers...so i tend to lean lowry over brooks, but we will see. I hope he does well this year because he will be our pg

 

That's why you don't just read stats.
get a brain and watch the game.

 

Aaron has not reached to the level where he is starting PG for a good team. He has great speed but court vision and passes are no where near where it has to be for him to be a good PG. I don't think his quickness is being utilized within the half court game so the only thing that he is good for right now is when he is shooting lights out. He is not a consistently good jump shooter either so as a result we get the kind of production that we got today from him.

 

So you knew AB couldn't play in those games when he scored 20 some points and dished out 6, 7 times.

 

Brooks is terrible. Games when he is not scoring the ball he is a liability. When you see Steve Nash getting to the rim at will and trying to post him up that is a problem. Derek Fisher was an offensive option tonight. He cannot play defense...at all.

He is nothing but a shooting guard in a frail point guard's body.

 

I am ok with him, he is learning on the job.....

But right now, the Brooks vs Fisher matchup reminds me of Kenny Smith and Derick Harper.

DD

 

Dude, big men with knee issues. Imagine a slower Yao then he is today or a Yao with even lesser hops or a weaker Yao. He could be 7'6 but if you can't run up and down the court, you're no use to anyone (and this isn't even considering, god forbid, the possibility of more injuries). 2005-2006 Yao was more explosive and you can pin it on Adelman, but Yao's PER has declined ever since that year. It's highly unrealistic to think Yao can maintain the same level just because his height does not permit him to dip below a certain point, which is the same dumb logic as those people who say Yao should dunk and block everything because he's 7'6.

This team in general is CENTERED around Yao. If Yao declines, the team will decline, that's just a given. I'm not saying Brooks shouldn't be "developed" and groomed for the post-Yao future, but I'm saying that if you want to win a championship with the current Yao-centered team then I would much rather prefer a veteran pass-first PG at the helm.

 

Are you kidding?

Aaron was not aggressive at all. There were plenty of times he threw it in to Yao, and got the ball back, only to pass it back to Yao. A couple of weeks ago, he would have shot that. Hell, he might not have even passed it to Yao in the first place. He deferred the ball to someone else numerous times, and even when he drove to the basket (when he usually would just go in with his head down looking to score) he passed it out to Scola, Battier, and even Yao some times. He took four shots total, which was less than Lowry...

Nevermind... my mistake, I guess you're right, he wasn't looking to pass the ball at all...

 

I'm not comfortable with him being starting pg for us.Kyle should start over Brooks,no question about it!

Look how tough the matchup in the playoffs gon' be,with the place we're at in the race to the playoffs,Chris Paul gon' match up with Brooks and I'm 100% sure that Brooks will get blasted by!

 

And hell, both of those turnovers he had was on a drive, when he tried to throw it out to someone else.

You're right, I didn't watch the game at all.

 

So will you re-sign Yao or not?

Pick the best vet PG we could realistically get, and you think it would make a difference? Be honest.
Are you then not happy that AB and Lowry are getting some minutes for the development. Or what is the alternative to bashing AB every time he doesn't have a good game.

 

Dude, it's not about he's looking to pass or not. It's about if he can play the starting point or not.

 

These games you talk about were against sub-par teams such as Golden State, Minnesota, Milwaukee, etc. In other games against playoff teams, he simply scored with little assists and a portion of those games ending in losses such as Lakers twice, San Antonio, Utah, etc.

It's important to look at the statistics in context of the situation and realize the reasons for those numbers before applying them to better teams and expecting the same kind of production.

 

Yao is going to be re-signed but he won't be the same Yao forever.

I'm unhappy that Brooks is getting starting minutes because that means we're throwing away this season. I've already accepted that however. I won't accept the Rockets "developing" Brooks for the next two or three years, which happily coincide with Yao's prime years.

I'm not bashing Brooks. He's a good young player. He just doesn't belong, plain and simple.

Realistic veteran PGs at a reasonable price
Steve Blake
Kirk Hinrich
Raymond Felton

etc. etc.

A veteran pass-first PG able to get the ball to Yao in good spots on a regular basis and more importantly regulate the tempo of the game would make a world of difference. And I'm not even talking about the top of the line players we could invest in with the Tracy expiring, the Nashs of the world.

 

I was just pointing out stats and things that I noticed. If we had a better choice to go to, I'd be fine with Aaron coming off the bench. I just don't feel that Lowry is better than Aaron.

 

You can easily search back to what I said.

 

First off I am not too impressed with the three names you mentioned. Even if assume they make a difference, you think they would get us a ring this year or the next year?

And you know for Hinrich and Felton, we had to give up much more than Rafer. Are you willing to throw in Landry, Scola, or Battier along with Rafer for them? Don't tell me you could bait CHI or CHA with Luther's expiring, because I believe Morey had played that hand and got laughed at.

Then why are you not happy?
On the day when Tmac quit us we were done, and I am glad Morey started thinking about future. Not saying he master planned a trick to make Jordan happen, but a good move IMO.
Whether Lowry should start or not, it doesn't really matter. They both play similar amount of minutes, and RA leaves whoever plays the best on the court. AB right now get a leg up on Lowry because he knows the system a little better.

 

Aaron will do better as PG than luther head did anyway.