Are you kidding? Brooks - 13.7 PPG. Rafer - 11.5 PPG Brooks - 38.8 FG%, 36.8 3P%, 90.9 FT%. Rafer - 37 FG%, 34.8 3P%, 78.9 FT% Brooks - 4.7 Rebounds, 4.0 Assists. Rafer - 3.0 Rebounds, 5.4 Assists Those are stats when both of them are starters. I'd say those numbers are pretty similar.
great thread. looks like Deron Williams will have difficulties in blowing past Lowry during clutch time... the guy is athletic and thats what we needed..
comparing Lowry and Brooks, Kyle is def more of true pg/playmaker. He is one of the top players in the league at getting to the ft line per/minute played, which is HUGE for us.
He wont be a fit to Adelman's system. His system requires fast ball movement, to be honest, now the rockets had aready been very lack of passing abiliby. if you compare the rockets and the old Kings, who the rocket is any better than any King on passing?? no, no any single one. Now it became even worse, the only guy with passing ability in the lineup got trade, for a guy never seeking for open man.
Morey told Adam that Lowry is someone they've been trying to get the last couple days. Orlando was trying to trade for Rafer the last couple days. They were able to bring the two together today. I know Lowry is a guy the Rockets have liked for a while. I remember Feigen writing that a while ago.
Well said. I think that sums up my feelings about the mass hysteria that has been going on around here. Rocket fans are some of the most fickle I have ever seen.
The period AB playing as starter is his best time this season. after that he had 10+ games with 80% of game he got stats like 1/7 fg, 1/8 fg. and never got much better till now. and i think 4.0 ast and 5.4 ast is NOT similar. If you want compare their peak time. compare with the stats of RA in recent games.
the Bobcats have had a dilemma of handing the reigns to either DJ Augustin or Raymond Felton the rockets have effectively copied that dilemma, except brooks and lowry are a poor men's augustin and felton.
I posted some of this in the Morey presser thread, but here is a comparison of the three per 48 minutes: PPG APG RPG TO FTA Lowry 16.6 7.8 5.0 3.5 7.2 Rafer 16.7 7.8 4.3 2.6 3.3 Brooks 21.8 5.5 4.2 2.9 4.2 Lowry isn't nearly as good at the 3 as Rafer, but is much better everywhere else. He is shooting 41% (including 24% from 3) this year while Rafer is shooting 37%. What reall ystands out to me is the free throw attempts per game. Lowry goes to the line over twice as much as Rafer.
Keep in mind that Lowry has taken 69 three point attempts this season (a little over 1 per game). So it's not like he tosses up shots from beyond the arc at that abysmal percentage. I'm not saying Lowry or Brooks is a definite upgrade over Rafer right now. I just think they can fill in adequately while being able to improve their game, so further down the road they will be definite upgrades.
we got ourselves a younger, more physically gifted pg now. he can't shoot the 3, but we have enough 3 point shooters. we needed a floor general who can penetrate, get the ball to the scorers. its a good deal for us imo, we got younger and got ourselves someone who's not afraid of taking it to the rim.
The difference is those Bobcats' PG have a better reputation and I think they are better players as well. Augustin = Brooks Felton > Lowry I'm a Rockets fan, but hey I'm not a homer.
This kinda seems like the most irrelevant question? I highly doubt Tmac ever plays another game in a Rockets uni.
That can be a good thing. would allow them to play pick and roll from that side with Lowry and Yao. They'd have to respect Lowry from that side IF he is aggressive enough to keep driving in there with Yao or PnR with yao or GnG.
Yeah it is a good thing. If Lowry keeps driving, the guy covering Yao is probably going to help out and Lowry can just give an easy pass/dish to Yao and Yao could get an easy dunk. I've been waiting for Rafer Alston to do stuff like that for a while but it seems like that never happened. I hope Lowry can do that.
Did you just put Rondo and Kidd in a same sentence? LOL. Lowry may become the next Rondo. That I can buy. They do have a lot of similarities afterall. But KIDD? LOL
Question; Why does Lowry keep on jacking up 3's when he clearly can't shoot beyond the arc (not saying that he can't shoot the jumper, which he clearly can).
