Yeah, I agree. I don't see him being a playmaker. He gets his assists in the flow of the game. He's not directing people where to go or creating plays. The assists are just apart of Adelman's offense. Chase is only averaging 1 assist/g.
exactly. i don't know what DD is watching. i mean from the outside in, people must think ariza is a legit go-to scorer now with his 20 points. ariza would struggle to score 8 points if he was the main guy in any other offense.
We dont necessarily need him but it would be a PLUS if we can get him to not limp and play our style. If he can do that, he will clearly make us better.
We don't need a guy who can dribble per se, just a guy who can create by going to the hole when Brooks is doubled, drive and dish so to speak. It is no secret that Budinger playing makes a huge difference, we win if he plays against the Lakers. DD
no, outside of the pistons, every championship team needs that guy where you can just give the ball to down the stretch on the perimeter and you expect something to happen. brooks is not going to be that guy b/c he's too short (if brooks was taller, he would have tore up that double team put up by the lakers. but b/c he was short, he had to dribble, dribble, dribble...). so you don't simply need chase to just dribble when brooks is doubled. chase makes a huge difference b/c he's a freakin' scorer. 11 points in 17 minutes? that's a superb off the bench scorer. he would make a difference anyday.
This is ridiculous. Chase Budinger is not a playmaker. He plays well off the ball and makes smart passes, but he cannot create for himself at this level. His handles aren't good enough. There's a reason he's never given the ball up top and asked to create. All he needs to do is catch and pass or catch and shoot. Anything other than that will be detrimental to both Budinger and the team.
Chase Budinger is so far from a playmaker its not even funny. He is a catch and shoot player, as well as an off the ball slasher. Brooks and Lowry are the only playmakers on the current team, excluding T-mac of course.
The Pistons had Chauncey Billups there to close the games that were close for them. They didn't start calling him "Mr. Big Shot" for nothing. Billups was the leader. He took the responsibility offensively when the game was close and made sure the Pistons didn't lose. Sounds like a "star" to me. A playmaker. Joe Dumars is finding Billups harder to replace than they thought. I said when he was considering shaking up the Pistons that if he traded Billups (contract or no contract), that he was relegating the Pistons to rebuilding for a lot of years. We can only hope someone here develops into that type of player for us out of the young players.
Brooks is a work in progress, DD. He's got the guts. He's also got the shot (or at least, the mentality to shoot). He's got to be a playmaker. He's got to learn, in the half court, how to create space for his own shot, or get the ball to other guys who are open. Most guards (good ones, that is) excel in an up-tempo offense and in transition or fast-break basketball. Brooks' assist numbers reflect that, and are as much of a by-product of the Rockets' need to play this way as much as anything else. But Brooks is about as close to the real thing at the point as we've had here since Sam Cassell....
because next year TMac's contract with Houston will come to an end, I don't believe he is still as slouchy as before after he comes back. but the problem is if he can play well even though he longs to play well? Allen Iverson is a good example.
Ok, you are being totally ridiculous is you think you can compare Aaron Brooks to Chauncy Billups. I love Aaron Brooks, but he is not even in the same league as Billups. Wow.
Agree. Aaron Brooks will never be "mr big shot" anything or even be able to say he was mr finals mvp. Too inconsistent also imo. One good night here, another bad night there. Taking it little too far there.
