(CHRONIC) Point guard wishes Rockets would extend contract to match his growing value

So what? Lowry cant knock down a jumpshot consistently. Which is what baffles me, I honestly think you have no clue how valuable Aaron Brooks is to this team. You've implied trading him would be a option, but you have yet to say who you'd trade him for. You honestly think Lowry can run the starting line up better than Brooks? With absolutley no 3pt shot?

 

Lowry's TS% last season was 53.6% to Brooks' 54.9%, while playing far superior defense to Brooks'. Honestly speaking, Lowry is simply a far superior player overall than Brooks is. If it comes down to resigning or matching offers on Brooks for anything close to the full MLE, Brooks will almost certainly be let walk for nothing. Yes, it would suck to lose Brooks for nothing, but there are far worse fates than losing a player for nothing. Signing Brooks to 40/5 would be one of those fates.

 

Brooks contract gon look something like Scolas.. atleast

 

Lowry shot much fewer shots while Brooks was the main scorer and expected to put up a majority of the teams shots. The less we must be rely solely on Brooks, the higher is TS% will increase. On the other hand, we would never expect Lowry to be a main scorer while Brooks has that ability. Prolific scoring is much tougher to come by and more valuable as a commodity than defense is.

 

You're joking, right?

 

yeah but we don't need a prolific Scoring guard. We have Martin, Scola and Yao. I'm not saying I'd trade him JUST to trade him. I'm saying it's a position we could afford to fill with Lowry.

 

I"m not going to read through all this hater crap, but in short...


Brooks is a stud...he improves every year, which is rare for many NBA players.
He plays maybe the toughest position on the court, he scores efficiently, he isn't a ball hog, he distributes 'decently', and he's been a great team player since he's been on our team. I don't know what you guys want from him...he's getting paid WAAAAAAY less than someone of his caliber should be getting paid and he's letting us know..which I'm sure Morey already knows, that's why he's such a great deal atm.

He deserves a big pay raise...anyone that doesn't think so is delusional. Yeah, it's a bit disturbing to hear this stuff in the press, but he's worked his ass off and shown he can play in this league and improve each year which is what great players do.

Just because someone says, "hey I'm a hell of a lot better than what I'm getting paid" doesn't mean he's a prick...he just wants what he deserves. Some dumbass in the press probably asked him that and he responded with the honest(but not PC) response. Yeah it wasn't the boring Shane Battier response...meh, oh well.

 

Are you sure is that rare for any good player inm his first years in NBA?

When he constantly missed WIDE OPEN teammates...over and over, what would you say to that?
Only Ariza complained of being ignored wide open....but that doesn't mean that he ignored Yao in former seasons, or Scola and MArtin wide open in recent seasons...not only Chuck or Trevor...

Again, I don't think people here hate him at all, in fact, most recognize him as a good player....but if a trade is possible, while his trade value is still at peak, and the trade would improve the team as a whole...what's the problem with that?

 

I've long felt that Lowry's a better fit for an offense that requires a distributor to play the 1 spot. He's a stronger defender and is admittedly a weaker scorer, but isnt a slouch in that area....

 

I think people need to realize last year was Aaron's first full year as a starter and his 2nd full year in the NBA. The 07/08 campaign he barley saw the court. He has a long NBA career ahead of him and has alot of room to improve. It's not like this is Aaron's 7th year in the NBA and he's at his prime right now.

 

You can't trade Brooks, his play far exceeds his contract, he is just going to have to wait for his new deal just like Kyle and Luis.

And if you did try to trade him you would not be able to get value for him as he is playing at about a $10 million player, and his contract is less than 1/5th that.

So folks saying trade him are not making much sense, because you could only get back a player making what he makes and that is way undervalued.

AB is here and improving, and is our best option at starting PG, I suspect Lowry will go before Brooks.....

Either way, we are lucky to have them both, and he will just have to wait to get paid.

DD

 

This is often repeated and I disagree. What makes you think his value is nowadays at the peak? If he achieves some of his personal goals for this season (that's better FG%, less turnovers, better decision making, little better defense, more Rockets wins) his value will undoubtfully increase in the minds of GMs, no matter what his numbers are. Is as simple as that if he achieves his personal goals he will truly be a better player and therefore a most valued player. Considering the significant improvement we saw in him last season, I don't see the point in deny in advance the possibility of watching further improvements. He's becoming a veteran... It wouldn't be so weird to see him mature as a player.

 

ABSOLUTELY

Like our bench unit, not our starting squad.

 

Ahh, I see now. The imfamous yao fan boy. I knew it would come out sooner or later. See, if you follow most poster who want brooks gone or doesn't think he's valuable, this is the beef. Whether its the bounce pass or him not waiting 2 days to get elsie the ball. It always come out though at some point.

 

Article over at SB Nation:

Rockets Brooks Must Still Prove Himself Worthy of Coveted Extension

 

DaDakota, I'd expect this message from a novice, not from a guy with more than 70k posts.....

Do you now about the salary fillers in trades?
You want a perfect example? USE the TRADE CHECKER AT REALGM.COM
Trade ID #5707079

Rockets gets: Andre Iguodala
Sixers get: Brooks, Jeffries, Hayes
TRADE SUCCESFUL

I can;t believe you were not aware of this possibility....

 

Ignoring your ridiculous trade, the point is that in order to do that, you would need to break up more of the roster, and have the Rockets willing to pay more of the Lux tax, something that will not happen.

Brooks is severely underated by many people on this forum, it seems that the role he is being asked to play is completely ignored in a lot of discussions about metrics etc....and people make the innane argument about his lack of assists, when his role with the starters was one of a scoring point, he was doing exactly what he was asked to do by the coaches and the organization.

He is this team's equivalant of Mike Bibby.

It is a worthless argument that we have had a lot of in the past.

DD

 

You were ignoring about something BASIC in trades, the salary FILLERS.....
That's the point, (not if Brooks is underrated or how probzalbe was X or Y trade)...READ YOUR OWN MESSAGE....

Instead of posting 70 THOUSAND posts, you could have spend at least a lttle of time learning the basics about trades, don;t you think?

BTW...the trades I proposed were quite possible, and a backcourt of Hinrich+Martin+Iggy is far better thant the actual of Brooks+MArtin+Battier

And still there wouldn't be a need of being over the luxury tax....stop posting that much and take a time to analyze and do the maths....

 

You didn't get the memo????? Apparently AB is worth LBJ....we don't settle for less.

AB will be the 1st scoring PG as the number 1 option to score to win the championship because you know....he can SCORE.......better than AI. Book it.....