ESPN Draft Buzz : Rockets using Landry to try to acquire lotto pick

uhh earl clark?

 

It would be great if that pick nets Rubio. If it is only Landry then the trade off would be almost even.

 

Landry and Lowry are definitely solid but Aaron Brooks has shown flashes of greatness. And I'm one of Brook's biggest critics because I went to UO and balled with him at the Rec when we went to college together and I've followed him since he was a Mcdonald's All American to the day he arrived to UO since day 1. In all honesty I think Brooks is a SG trapped in a jockey's body but he pops off every now and then and he shows signs that he can be great. The biggest difference between a superstar and role player/solid player is consistency. Brooks has shows signs of greatness while I think Lowry and Landry have shown more consistency but they're just consistently SOLID which I'm cool with. But when we have players like Brooks who is a rare commodity in this league because of his special skills/attributes such as quickness, speed, ability to create match up problems for opposing PG's, penetrate, knock the 3 down..... you take that into serious account because once he becomes consistent like Tony Parker just as an example (which I definitely think he has an opportunity to be like) you've gotta think he has star potential.... hence the reason why his trade value is so high. For every 10 Landry/Lowry's you find in this league you can only find 2 or 3 Brooks's.

As for Landry being top 6 that's absolute BS because Mcgrady has been injured. Morey is no fool. We're either getting back at least 1, 2, or 3 players or picks/cap space to acquire players that are equal to or greater than T-mac. What does that mean you ask? It means that pushes Landry down further on the "depth chart" hence the reason why Morey is looking to deal Landry in order to improve the team while also dealing Mcgrady to fill other needs.

If Morey can pull of a Landry for a lottery pick and we draft another PG or Wing player and then trade Mcgrady for a PF/C who's a star or at least starting material plus extras if we're really lucky and you'd hail Morey as a genius.

We obviously have differences in opinions but I'm not gonna hate on you. But I do want you to stand up and take a bow because you're one of the most narrow minded/ignorant Rockets fans (if you can call yourself that) on the history of the BBS. I award you most r****ded Rockets fan since the creation of Clutchcity.com/net Congratulations!!!!!!!!

 

I went to UO too and watched many of Brooks' games. He really is a SG trapped in a PG's body. His biggest defect is that, when his shots were not falling, he was just such a huge liability to the team.

Also, I am still puzzled everytime ppl compare him to Tony Parker, because other than speed, Brooks's game is very different. If people really want to compare Brooks with Parker, I would say Brooks is like Parker with much lower basketball IQ...

 

I said Parker for example and I really stress the " for example " part. Parker is only 27 but he started in the league when he was 18 if memory serves me right. He's coming up on his 9th year in the league. Brooks is just about to enter his 3rd year and I know he spent 4 years at UO as you know but he only has 2 years NBA experience. I fully expect him to break out and be more consistent this coming year. Even if he doesn't evolve into a true pg/full time play-maker I expect him to consistently score buckets and continue to do the things he's good at on a REGULAR basis.

As for Parker's basketball IQ he didn't really start to show high basketball IQ/intelligence until his 4th or 5th year in the league. He used to be Popovich's personal whipping boy. Brook's has the potential to be Tony Parker-esque aka starting/star guard potential (speed, penetration, quick, hard to stay in front of, hit the 3, score major points). We'll see how things play out but the foundation is definitely there. All he needs is more experience and to build upon his confidence from this past year.

Remember his rookie year when we basically through him into the fire for a lack of better words against the Jazz in the playoffs? He looked like an absolute NBDL level scrub getting schooled by RONNIE PRICE.... but that was basically a baptism by fire. He made huge strides in this years playoff run. If he builds further on the confidence from this year and works hard definitely WATCH OUT. If we trade Brooks and get something back great in return then I'm all for it but I would be hard-pressed to give him up for anything short of "good to potentially great" which is exactly what he is (good) and can become (potentially great).

Once again, this is coming from AB's biggest critic.

 

I wouldnt trade carl 4 tha world the draft world except blake griffin
ill tak landry anyday over jordan hill .. i dnt think dryl mory id that dumb
by il trade scola for a top 15 pik if i was morey i would get a top 15 pik
4 scola simply beacuse he is old and replacaple and tade dorsey and
2nd round future pik for jodie meeks my fav player in the draft

 

I think Morey should send you to college so maybe you can form a sentence worth reading. You ever heard of a run-on sentence?

 

i just finished my exams and erased all that grammer from my mind
bt **** olfd man this is a basketball forum nt a litreture one
i can write properly bt i choose nt waste my time nd energy ..
wil if u were slow enough nt to get what i wrote wil thatt's just
ur problem .. if its that hard to read will then dnt fukin read it

 

The run-on sentence isn't the problem.. They whole paragraph? makes no sense at all.

 

This coming from a guy who endlessly rants about Brooks like "he's the second coming of Parker." Brooks is good and maybe a potential one year all-star AT THE VERY BEST, but you saying that you went to UO with him and balled with him before doesn't mean he's gonna be great. It just means you are a stupid fanboy. Any critic or person who knows about basketball would tell you that you're a moron for even comparing him to Parker. Parker has way better IQ than Brooks but you wouldn't know that cause your IQ isn't that high yourself huh? Parker is also one of the best PGs in todays game that's made the all-star team 3 times now in his career and will probably be an all-star the next couple of years. Oh yeah, he has also been finals MVP in 2007 over Tim Duncan who's the greatest PF of all time to many. The way Parker drives to the lane, swerves by defenders, and finishes around big men "CONSISTENTLY" is on a whole other level than Brooks. If you think AB could even close to that then you are crazy. That's like comparing apples and oranges. If anything I would say AB is a cross between TJ Ford and Barbosa. But I'm tired of agruing with you all the time cause it seems impossible to get through your thick ass skull. I bet you're are one of those fools that was suckered by people like DD into thinking AB is like Parker. I should just ignore you but reading your stupid comments gives me a good laugh so maybe you should think about being a comedian some day. Or maybe you should take your all-time stupid award you have there and give it to youself. You would be r****ded enough to do so...

 

You just proved the point I'm trying to make.

You just compared Carl Landry (a 6th man) to Monta (a starter/borderline star) Gilbert Arenas (a former All Star) and Paul Millsap a very serviceable soon to be starter. They have all proven what they are in this league and have defined roles on the team.

As for Wade and Bosh to Darko, no one new how good Wade would become and Chris Bosh was an extremely tall thin young PF coming out of Georgia Tech that could have been a bust. They didn’t cause of their work ethic and talent. Who knows if the next Wade is in this draft if you don’t take the chance you’ll never know? And you’re saying you won’t take that chance cause you’re so in love with Carl Landry. PPPFFFFFTTTT!!!!

 

He already negated the comparison to Parker, and said their games are very dissimilar. It would be to everyone's benefit if you'd read the thread and not insult people in every post.

Asian was in less support of Brooks than you were of Landry, who you said you would not trade except for Griffin or Thabeet. A dream to say the least, as Landry wouldnt be traded straight up for a top 5 pick. Its simple as far as saying if Morey could find a gem like Landry in the second round, imagine the level of talent he'll dig up from the first round. With Morey's brief history, it would not be a stretch to say Morey's pick could be the best player (outside of Griffin and possibly Rubio) of this draft. Not very many would pass up that for the price of their sixth man.

 

Haha, it was a bit sarcastic, I am actually quite the DeRozan doubter.

I was just trying to make the point that you don't know what these kids will turn out to be, especially these freshman, chances are they will all be mediocre or busts. But theres also a chance that they will turn out to be something special.

You said that "its not like there is a Kobe in this draft" well in Kobe's draft they didn't think there was a "Kobe" in it either. Guys like Samaki Walker, Vitaly Potapenko, and Todd Fuller were taken before Kobe. So clearly the draft is not an exact science, not everyone recognizes "Kobe" talent when they see it. Besides you of course.

Regardless, name calling does not help your argument any.

 

All this Brooks=Parker stuff will or can be dismissed once Brooks is traded.

 

I compared the to Amare cause they were drafted late as he was too. It won't matter to me though once we get Amare for Tmac and Brooks cause Amare would replace Carl Landry as our athletic PF and Landry would be used to get a draft pick to get a PG.

 

Edit:

I compared them to Carl cause they were drafted late as he was too. It won't matter to me though once we get Amare for Tmac and Brooks cause Amare would replace Carl Landry as our athletic PF and Landry would be used to get a draft pick to get a PG.

 

How about TMac Landry and Brooks for.........

Memphis: Rudy Gay and 2nd pick

OR

Celtics: Rondo and R. Allen

Houston: TMac and Brooks

 

Sounds great, now we just have to scratch out a few zero's in McGrady's contract to make the memphis one work. Or we could always forge Danny Ainge's signature to make the Boston deal work.

 

yeah grizz would have to throw in buckner,jaric,and milicic

 

Totally correct.

Tsquare, you *do* realize you dont have to post 15 times in each thread right?
If you were actually providing some posts of substance, it would be one thing...but it really seems to me that 80% of your posts are just one liner agreement posts....in other words...post padding.

if that wasnt bad enough already....you do have a nasty tendency to start calling people names if they dont agree with you.

that needs to stop if you want to reach 2000 posts.