Props to Aaron Brooks on his career high 30 points

How bout holding him to simple point guard standards? He Isn't Nash. I totally agree so he should focus on the team instead of trying to be a superstar which he isn't. Having more TOs than assists isn't being much of a PG. I guess you're OK with that but I fear the Rockets will suffer in the long run for it.

 

Jason Terry and Nate Robinson sure aren't pure PGs either. But they aren't starting at PG for their teams. Its a strange situation, fortunately I think with She-mac on the shelf, the Rockets have the ability to kind of roll the dice and see what they've got with the kid.

 

Who is AB Zero to not trust his teammates? He isn't Kobe, CP3, or Nash. He should dish the ball to his teammates (namely Yao) without hesitation. AB hasn't earned the right to not trust his teammates since, by your own logic, he's a borderline scrub/rook at this point.

 

Who isn't trusting their teammates?

We're talking about a guy with absolute breakneck speed trying to be guarded by a guy who plays defense on level with a fairy godmother. He was doing what any smart PG would do and was taking what the defense gave him.

 

What about at the cost of Yao's offensive gifts. If Yao never gets touches with AB at the point, then what the hell are we giving Yao so much money for? If you had to choose between the two, who would YOU go with?

 

i don't think it's all about yao. but it all depends on how quickly ab can pick up, if ever, the traditional pg duties.

 

No matter what type of QB/PG you have, they need to know how to run the offense and make good decisions with the ball. That is what AB must still learn IMO. I'm not asking for eye popping stats from AB or change his style of play, just making the right decisions with the ball and running the offense efficiently, like when to call your own number for the play or defer to Yao and Ron.

I think that's when AB gets into trouble is when he tries to do too much by himself.

 

Scoring 30 on Nash is not impressive at all, nearly ever PG has a career night on these guys.

With that said, Brooks made some big plays and he and Lowry both have a lot of potential.

 

I don't see him as a guy who doesn't trust his teammates. He doesn't have the ability to pass the ball effectively.He isn't a natural PG.

 

At the cost of Yao's offensive gifts? are you joking, Yao had AT LEAST 24 touches with intent to score in the game vs Suns, 16 shot attempts, 6 assist, 2 turnovers. This is the same amount of touches that he gets no matter who is at the point or who any of the other 4 players on the court are. AB drives everyone nuts with all the stupid bounce passes into Yao so obviously he dose give him touches

 

oh and my bad for getting off the point of this thread with my last post. Great scoring game Aaron, looking forward to the next one.

 

Great, but this kid needs more assist's! Even Yao had more than him tonight!!

 

Has anybody considered what Rick Adelman is asking/telling Brooks to do?

I saw several games where Brooks deliberately spent almost the entire game trying to limit his shots.

The result: Adelman in postgames would say Brooks needs to stay aggressive or Brooks needs to take this or that shot. You can actually see him yelling at Brooks during games when he passes up an open shot.

I think Brooks is a good kid who is trying to do exactly what is asked of him. Sure, he is a willing shooter, to say the least. At the same time, he has shown more than a willingness to try to play more conventionally (even if he's not good at it). When he's done that, more often that not, Adelman has made a comment after the game about Brooks needing to be more aggressive at the offensive end.

 

To clarify I was trying to say it takes time for a guy accustomed to being a scorer on the second unit to be a passer on the first.

 

I feel no happy with his 30 points

 

Rafer Alston was taking a ton of shots too. The difference is that AB makes his shots, he is a good shooter, as long as they are going, he should continue to take them. Yao wasn't making shots tonight, so Aaron did what he needed to do.

 

The rockets offense is not built to give pgs assists, it built to get them from everyone on the team and that seems to be working fine

 

AB's poor ast ability can be covered by others, ie yao had the highest ast# again, a little sad but ok.

However his D is atrocious, and cant be covered by others, yeah he got 30 because his shots were just falling tonight, but Nash also had his season high.

praise whatever you want with AB, I like the kid too, but pg is still our Weakest Link, period. That wont change any time soon with him starting.

 

AB is NOT a good shooter, he's a streaky one, go look up his numbers.

 

I think the Suns that we wrecked earlier in the year were a different team than the one we played tonight. Those Suns were dysfunctional having tried to betray their identity by playing defense that we all knew they could not do no matter how much they were coached up. These Suns are more like a slightly inferior cousin of the ones that beat us 7 out of the previous 9 times in Houston; that is, their style was fast, frantic, and one that a Rockets team led by Rafer and T-Mac would not have been able to keep up with.

So yes I do think we would have lost if we had kept Rafer tonight. Nash was out of his mind; no one was stopping him. We won by outgunning him.