There is one huge difference between Brooks and the rest of the PGs. Not only is he fast, but he is also a great shooter. This already sets him apart from the likes of Rondo and even Parker in some cases. The only weakness in Brooks is his size and court vision. Though IMO I truly believe Brooks has the court vision potential inside him, but it becomes a case of whether he'll take advantage of it or not and combine it with his speed and shooting ability. He also needs to work on his defense big time. I think it becomes a matter of time before Brooks make a real impact. He has the potential, not many guards with the speed of Brooks possess the same shooting abilities he does. Not to mention, Brooks is probably the fastest player in the league right now.
What did you say? A career 40% shooter in Brooks sets him apart from a career 49% shooter Parker by his shooting? And you call a career 40% shooter with 35% 3 point shooting percentage a "great shooter"? Do you realize AB barely beats "brick" Rafer Alston, a career 38% shooter with 35% 3point percentage? Talk about overrating.
AB's "shooting" is overrated once more. Believe or not, the first couple years, SFs was shooting better than AB from both 2 point range and 3 point range. If you consider how many fouls SF used to draw, the offensive efficiency difference between those two are huge. Not to mention SF3's rebounding, not even close. It's going to be very hard for AB to get to 70% of SF3 at his peak. When a career 40% shooting percentage is called " great shooter" by so many people on this board, you know the shooting standard for PG is lowered that much, thanks to Rafer Alston.
Experience for another 1st round defeat? They have plenty already. Play Lowry as starting PG they'll have a better chance advancing. BTW, Lowry is yonger than Brooks.
Would like to mention a few things: 1) Patience is a good virtue; 2) Better court vision and how to handle certain situations (e.g. clutch time execution) comes with experience; 3) You can learn everything else but you can't learn speed. We just traded our most experienced PG away and are playing without our 20M superstar. We are still coping okay. Like someone on the board complaining about Yao's -18 for one game, you really can't going overboard to criticize AB when he only had the one 0 assist game. Give him time to learn.
Popovich's comments here are so astute that I have to wonder what the hell he was thinking when he gave us Scola. Did he not study the guy the way he says you're supposed to study a potential PG?
Bingo. Parker taking two year to develop and he's 20. Thats the age Brooks was being Brooks in college. Lets get this right. Brooks isn't going to, at the age of 25, drastically learn to do something different. He is what he is. No different that Yao at 28. Yao isn't going to drastically start running fast breaks and Brooks isn't going to learn the play PG differently. He is what he is. And didn't he make a comment already about not changing?
AB has been in Rockets for 2 years. We have seen his play for 2 years. and Lowry just came here for about 1 month . Bench AB. why? Because during all the games ,since Lowry came, We saw much more potential than AB has.Lowry takes only less 1month to impress lots of people here.However AB takes 2 years to prove he is only a good backup PG.
LOL. Quit being so short sighted. Both Lowry and AB bring different things to the table. Yao, Battier, Scola ect. are familiar with AB unlike Lowry. Thank the lord your not the rocket coach. Kneejerk city again.
When you've watched a guy be nothing but a pure scorer for four years in college, then watch him be a scorer in the NBA for his first two seasons, it kinda lowers your expectations of him becoming the next Steve Nash. Brooks puts the ball through the hoop. Is it a big deal that he can't create for others? If he didn't get blocked so much and miss so many open jumpers I wouldn't care how many assists he got.
this is a what have you done for me lately GARM. They can't see that this team needs a scoring point guard with a healthy mcgrady. with mcgrady going out yeah brooks gets exposed a bit. The kid just has to learn give it time.
Speed? Do you know that Brooks is the lightest (161 lbs) and second shortest (5-10'') player in this league? What kind of speed can you expect from him? Why not bring a 150 lbs and 5-5'' guy if all you want is speed?
Be Familiar doesn't mean having chemistry.Comparing the passes of Lowry with AB's .It is sad that you seldom saw AB played smart like Lowry did.Lowry creats more easy shots for his team.AB creats difficulties when his teammates receiving his passes. Yeah. AB shoot better for 3.But Lowry can bring more score by his assists.Scola and Yao wouldn't only have 14 shots together in a game with Lowry.They are the most efficient player this team ,not the late first roundpick~ It is sad that AB played 2 years here that he still can't see his teammates in the clutch time. Of course . I wouldn't be the coach and I can't afford such a job.But It doesn't mean ALL the present coach doing is correct and proper.
Honestly, I think Brooks works best when he penetrates, he doesn't have to always take the shot but make the defense worry about him. It seems that since becoming the starting PG, he doesn't do this a lot and when he does, he always takes the shot regardless of if that is the correct course of action. He seems like a smart kid and I hope he and the coaches recognize that just playing the perimeter only is the way to success.
