Small sample size imo. Going by his career numbers I don't think he'll be able to sustain doing that efficiently.
Now you are just talking out of your ass. I am one of the proponents for Beverly starting over Brooks, but it looks like you didn't watch the rockets during the earlier seasons. Brooks is undersized, but is good at getting to the basket because he is lightning quick. Its not his offense that people are getting on about, its his defense. His offensive production is much better than Lin's or Bev's when he is playing vintage like has been, but his defensive deficiencies are too.
With Harden and Lin back, his offense won't be as needed. It's going to be hard for McHale to find minutes for him when the squad is back at full strength.
Agreed, he is a fantastic insurance policy and allows you to trade lin or Bev with little to no dropoff if it improves the team elsewhere. Great flexibility. DD
Brook's offensive production is not better than Lin's. Lin doesn't shoot the 3 as well but Lin has a stronger move to the hole and more variety of scoring at the rim against bigger/stronger players than Brooks. He's had a nice run and great for the team but you're putting a few good games over the consistency Lin has shown for a long time now and improvements he made this year. Brooks is better than Bev scoring but can't rebound with Bev and Lin either for that matter.
Absolutely. This season Lin has become a very good combo guard and AB, as always, is a one dimensional point guard. Even at the Rockets frantic pace there are only 1.57 shots per minute available. Every shot AB would take with the starting lineup comes right out of much better offensive players stat line.
I don't know what Mark Price and his career 3PT% was, but he has to also be one of the best 3pt shooters ever.We had our own Microwave 3pt shooter in Eddie Johnson who was money.Walt Williams had his moments but Glen Rice sucked here for the most part.
This is pretty much it, I'm averse to running with just Beverley and Brooks because of how bad Brooks is defensively. Yes he's a fantastic boost offensively when he's got his shot going, but when that isn't the case hes a net negative on defense, hes just way too small/gets hung up on screens. Still have flashbacks of Dwill just doing whatever he wanted.
None of those players ever broke the 50% barrier for an entire season. Here was Kerr's 94-95 stat line for the entire 82 game season: FG: 52.7% 3PT: 52.4% 2PT: 52.9% 2PA per game: 4 3PA per game: 2.1
Bev is there for his defense and hustle and that's about it. If he continues to stink it up from downtown where he is a mediocre 35% despite getting the most open looks, then AB or Lin should replace him.
Steve Kerr will allways be rememberd for that midrange shot in the finals against the Jazz to win the game.
It was mainly because Kerr wasn't just a long ball specialist. He was actually a SHOOTING specialist. It didn't matter where he was on the court, you couldn't leave him even partially open at all. Even though he couldn't really do anything else, just the fact that he was such an amazing and consistent shooter, you had to leave a man on him. When such a role player plays with greats like Jordan and Tim Duncan, that ability really puts a ton of stress on opposing help D.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kO4caOwS6jI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Some fantastic D from Nash
Brooks isn't good at getting to the basket, and he never has been. At his best he's a great 3pt shooter who is moderately efficient. To call his current numbers vintage implies that he has played like this in the past, which is not true.
