AB and Yao work great together, just because you say they don't does not make it so. Please prove your point that they don't fit..... DD
Ab not getting anylove tonight .. With all respect Lowry cant be a starting PG on a contender not saying we are currently one but were defintley planning to .. Ab has great potential very fast .. great shooting touch and nice handling its just the IQ that will come with time and the defence is improving day by day .. I love lowry's hustle but sometimes hustle dont win anything .. the bobcats hustle but that got them 59 points .. Ariza was great offisenvely but i think hes forgetting we got him for his defence firsy and he's not playing any right now .. If gets back in form i like to put him on penetraters like Melo and James and battier on shooters like Roy and Ellis .. Anyway great win .. congratulations all ..
AB and Yao work great because AB is an offensive threat. Yao can kick it back out to Aaron and the defense has to worry about him hitting the 3 or driving. With Lowry, there is no inside/out presence. When Yao kicks it out to Lowry, the defense does not have to react, easy as that.
Exactly......AB is great with Yao...... Heck, AB has improved a ton, notice how he is now keeping his dribble alive going through the lane ala Nash and CP3? That is new this year. DD
YES He is doing the Steve Nash thing where he dribbles sideline to sideline under the basket while maintaining his dribble. I also think his defense has improved a bit.
Lowry could be a starting PG on a contender. "Potential" does't win you any games either, unless its realized. I'm not here to argue with you just wanted to make that point. We actually NEED both of these guys. AB is not a defensive presence and he does not get to the FT line often. Lowry plays good D and gets to the line consistently. So they both add something to the team when they are running the point. That is why Adelman plays them together at times. I'm glad we got'em both. I think they are a good mix and play well together. This is the NBA, no one person can stop the real scorers in the league. It is a team effort to due that. Dont expect Ariza to come in and shut people down to zero points. Not possible. He is trying to expand his game this year. Going to be some growing pains with that so just bare with him. He is a good team guy so he wont go crazy with it. He knows when to pass. Our offense has to come from ball movement. Not one player creating and setting up others.
I am not here to prove any1 wrong too .. I understand the first point you make dont get me wrong i love Lowry he's a great backup and we need both ofcourse Ariza's was bad defensivly gambled a lot and lost his man alot .. Yes defense is a team effort thats why when he made few bad descion the teams whole defensive effort went to waste .. I didnt expect him to be the best defender in our team but just play defense he came with the reputation that he can play defense .. right now he's emphsizing alot on offense ..
I disagree bigtime with this. Brooks is a playfinisher and maker and lowry is a playmaker. Brooks is effective with or without the ball because he's a scorer. Lowry needs the ball in his hands and he needs play finishers to be effective. Put lowry in phoenix,ny,or philly and he could be 12pts 8asst. Put lowry in sa or la or with a team that has a big and the ball is out his hands and he's not that effective. Put brooks in la or sa and he's still good, put him inphoenix he's lb, in ny he's nate, and in philly he's lou williams. Brooks is just a better more explosive player.
I don't like the "Run the clock down." strategy with a slim lead and almost 3 minutes left in the game. Rockets need to continue to be aggressive to work for easier shots. They kept waiting til the end of the clock and jacking up a bad shot while the Warriors stayed agressive and almost stole this one back.
I agree somewhat. Against teams like Golden State, who has so many weapons, you can't afford to slow down the tempo in the closing minutes of the game. For one thing, your own players become lethargic, and have a "We won, lets get out of here already" mentality. You have to be aggressive.
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Its funny how when AB have a good night people still find a way to hate after watching alston all the years....but when Lowry has a terrible game, no one says anything about it.. If you take Lowry from this team, and replace him with conroy, we would still atleast have a chance to win games.... If you take AB from this team and replace him with Conroy, we would be getting molested...night in and night out..
Mind numbing isn't it. He is the leading scorer on the team so far, the leading assister so far....and has been arguably the best player on the Rockets.... And tons of people around the league pick him as the breakout player....... DD
Exactly. Brooks is a SG in a PG's body, while Lowry is a more true PG. Of course Lowry needs the ball to be effective, just like any PG. When T-Mac comes back, Brooks should play a true SG.
Brooks is a SCORING PG......but he is a PG.... He is just more versatile than Lowry, he can play off the ball or with it..... DD
Let me simplify and use a couple of players from the past. With the grizz, bibby was 14-8 pg. He was a good player even then as I used to argue that on this very board. In the same draft, williams played for rick and was similar with the numbers. The difference was that bibby was a better shooter and could play reallly well without the ball. Williams on the other hand was a erractic shooter and wasn't as effective without the ball. In sacramento, the offense, combined with 3 guys (divac,webber,christie) were all good passers and ball handlers. This freed bibby up to do what he does best and that score by stroking the ball. Although stat wise he was like a 15-4 pg, he had his best yrs as did the kings with him at the pg spot. That's kinda how it is with brooks and lowry. Lowry needs play finishers and needs the bal which isn't what a adelman type offense specializes in. Now if lowry was a great talent/player, then the staff might adjust it, but seeing as how the triangle has never had a ball dominating pg, I doubt adelman would change what he's been so successful at. He adjusted the playbook for yao and tracy because they're top tier type players qhen healthy. Adelman suggested brooks for draft consideration for a reason, not by accident. He brooks as his bibby.
Brooks is the right fit for our team right now, because we are that bad on offense, and we need his scoring ability. That said, when we play more disciplined teams, his poor decision making and defense will cost us if he is the starting PG. We either need to get an elite guard to go with him, and use him like Mo Williams, or we need to upgrade our PG and make him the 6th man. A (Bobby Jackson/Jason Terry/Nate Robinson) type of player. Here is to Aaron Brooks averaging 25 a game this year! Keep it up young fella!!!
