AB would've dropped 50 if they played that same defense. However, Rose would've had to make an adjustment, and work harder on the defensive end. This would've likely caused him to miss some more shots on the offensive end, thus resulting in a Rockets win. AB > Kyle Lowry
This is exactly correct. I can't complain too much about this loss. Having Brooks, Bud, and Yao could have made a big difference, and we were unlucky to have five points called off because of 24 second violations. Yes, it is true that our back up point guard is not as good as Derrick Rose, but who didn't know that?
So Rose has to adjust to guard Brooks, but Brooks doesn't have to adjust to guard Rose? Interesting...
He sure is....he is not elite, but he is close to all star level which is good enough if you have good talent elsewhere. Lowry is just not an NBA starter, he is not good enough. DD
Of course not....don't you realize our Front court has the best shot blocking tandem in the world Miller/Scola...defensively better than Hakeem/Otis combo.
Brooks dropping 50? I wonder what makes anyone think that, he has not been a offensive force all season long. He's just been average if that. Why do people on this board take sides? Yao fans vs Tmac fans. Brook fans vs Lowry fans. Win as a team lose as a team and Honestly the best thing for the team is for Brooks OR Martin to come off the bench.
We really need to let JT and Jordan Hill get some playing time. ESPECIALLY HILL. No excuse for him only getting 5 mins tonight. As for Taylor, I think he needs to get at least 10-15 mins a game, especially with Bud out tonight. I just have a sick feeling Adelman will never play him and we will trade him to another team to watch him develop into a good player and maybe even an all star.
Close to All-Star level??? Half the West PGaurds dropped liked flies at last year's ASG and he still didn't make it. AB can shoot but what else does he do above average?? We need BOTH guys to be successful, it really doesn't matter who starts as long as both play.
He would, but my point is that he would've been more effective overall because of his scoring ability. Maybe he has an off night, maybe not, there is no way of knowing for sure. I just like Brooks shooting ability because with him in the game it makes it tough for the other team to double Scola or Martin. We lost this game on two separate runs by the bulls. The first was in the second quarter when we had four straight turnovers. The other was the 15-0 start the Bulls got off to in the fourth quarter. Both of those were because of offensive inefficiency and TURNOVERS!!! Furthermore, we turned it over because the double teams messed with our passing. Brooks likely would have been able to prevent this... And for those who think I wrote that Brooks would drop 50 on Rose, I said if Rose left AB open like he was doing to Lowry he would, but i didn't necessarily mean that he would score 50. Sorry, I didn't think that I needed to clarify that...
If there's no way of knowing for sure, how do you know he "would've been more effective"? They weren't doubling Scola or Martin anyways. I have no doubt he would've prevented this simply b/c the turnovers resulted from passes. Don't forget, Brooks is a shoot-first guard. By that same logic, you can say that Rose would've scored 60 against Brooks. And Rose scoring 60 is more plausible than Brooks scoring 50.
When Lowry is facing Nash, what should he do? Still shoot 5 times to get 7 points? We need a PG to take advantage of the crappy defense from most opponent PGs. We need a PG to take advantage of the rule of this PG era. PG is unfairly the most productive position. We really need to keep up with the league. AB is the closest answer we get. Lowry is what a PG should not be.
I agree. I think Lowry's role was to stop Rose's dribble/drive game and force him to shoot jumpers. Though Rose made his jump shots, it was a sound strategy. If Lowry weren't tired from playing so many minutes, he would've defended Rose better down the stretch. In a game like this, Adelman might've gone with a Brooks/Lowry backcourt in the final minutes if he had that option: Lowry could have defended Rose, while Brooks could have given the team its scoring punch.
But when Paul or Parker or [insert elite PG here]has a good game against Brooks it's just [insert elite PG here] going off because it's Brooks? People act like it always happens to Brooks but never to Lowry. Well, it happens to everybody. How do you think opposing fans feel when Brooks goes off on their PG?? Them's the rules.
If you saw the way rose played lately, then it's obvious to anyone that he was at his A+ game tonight. We put him in foul trouble, and slowed him down as much as possible. He could've easily dropped another 10 points on Brooks (we saw how Rose destroyed Brooks last season), and Brooks would be in early foul trouble before we know it. Heck, if those reviews weren't made, we could've won the game. The arbitrary review rockets only ref changed a huge portion of the game's momentum.
What, you mean when Lowry's injured and Brooks has to play a ton of minutes? Sure, fatigue definitely becomes a factor then, as well.
