Brooks has never hit the clutches in the last few seconds

Lmao @ dude who said its not clutch cause it didn't win the game.

Clutch shots are clutch shots. If he had missed those shots, the game could have changed drastically.

 

He will hit them ... in Toronto

 

I agree with the OP. Go back and review all the opportunities he has had at the end of the game to either tie or win a game for us this year and in all but one of those opportunities, he has either turned the ball over or missed the shot. He had two opportunities last night and true to form, he missed.

 

He like most players are good frontrunners, they play better when they have the lead than when they are behind, Aaron's play in crunchtime when Rockets are leading is lightyears ahead of his play when the Rockets are trailing.

 

He missed to many clutch FTs, which really bothers me. It's not his first, second or third time just making 1 out of 2 clutch FTs. We also know that he is a very good shooter. He just need be be mentally strong.

 

Just a reminder for the OP;

a clutch shot does not have to be a game winning shot.

Brooks has made plenty of clutch shots.

Game winning shots? Probably zero. But thats okay, there aren't much players in this league who have done that, and most of the time its a lucky shot.

 

Any player will hit some clutch shots and miss some clutch shots given enough opportunities. Brooks is included.

What bothers me about Brooks isn't that he misses shots or makes mistakes at the end of the game - he's young. That will happen.

It's the missed free-throws. I'm sorry, but hitting a ft off the front iron??? Being that short on a critical ft? It's one thing to miss, but to miss that badly...great players don't do that when it matters so much. And this is not the first time I've seen him miss clutch free throws. So it does make me wonder if the pressure affects him a lot.

Of course, he is young, and that has to be considered...and he's been carrying this team offensively for a lot of the season. And on a night when Martin wasn't there - really it was Brooks and Scola - and how many of scola's shots were set up by Brooks?

So I think this thread is a bit too much.

 

It's definitely the pressure, he doesn't handle it well. It's amazing the difference between his play when the rockets are leading or trailing in the final few seconds of games, nearly all his big shots happen when the rockets are leading.

 

He did it in the Phoenix game. WHo brought us to OT oh right Ariza

 

Some Aaron Brooks crunch time stats.

In the last 5 minutes of the game with neither team ahead or behind by 5 points.

He's shooting 35.6% compared to his regular shooting of 42.6%

His Effective FG% on jumpshots is 39.2% in the clutch compared to his normal EFG% of 51.3%

His close shot FG% is 45.5% compared to the his normal 47.7%.

So he basically has trouble shooting jumpers under pressure

 

I don't actually believe in the whole concept of "clutch" anyway. I guess that means I'm not your typical Rockets fan....

I think an athlete is what he is. You can be the best hitter for average in baseball and you're still not going to bat better than .333 on a consistent basis. You can be the best shooter in basketball and you're still not going to hit more than 40-something percent of your three pointers on a consistent basis. You will fail often. That's just part of playing sports. You can reduce the number of failures by improving your skills, but you can't magically have better skills just because it's a "clutch situation".

Sometimes, you will be "clutch". Other times, you will not. That game-tying three? Six out of ten times, Brooks is going to miss it. That doesn't make him a bad three-point shooter. In fact, it makes him a good one.

But one thing I know is, he can't magically become a better three point shooter just because it's the end of the game and the shot would tie it.

 

This information is useless unless you compare it to the league averages for these stats. It makes sense that he would shoot worse in the last 5 minutes--he's tired because he's already played heavy minutes throughout the game. This is likely true for all NBA starters.

 

This thread is utterly worthless and one of the biggest reasons the GARM sucks these days.

No one makes all their late game shots, no one is clutch late EVERY time.

Well, no one outside of Kobe Bryant.

Geez people, did any of you ever play sports? Did you ever captain a team? Do you know what it is like to have the sack to take charge, and fail?

Because more often than not a late game shot is going to miss, but you block that out, and get ready to take it again the next time.

It is incredible how stupid this thread is.......just mind numbing.

Too many people with a keyboard and a lack of fundamental understanding of the game of basketball.

DD

 

Not that to be a downer but I don't remember the last time anyone on this team hit a game winning shot since Steve Novak..

 

It would be nicer still if the team had a lead and didn't rely on late shots.



DD

 

If Aaron Brooks can't do it consistently, we better get someone who can. If we want a ring that is...

 

yup. this.

I just roll my eyes when we do that worthless AB iso at the end of games. He never passes and they never call fouls in that situation, so I just have to brace myself for the awful circus shot that rarely goes in

 

This was not a circus shot, it was a wide open look.