Aeron brooks is not a goood fit for our team. He goes to the rim to much and shoots ridiculous shot trying to get fouled. He must think he is kevin martin but he's far from it. We are retarted for not starting lowry over him and benching battier. Battier is horrible
AB is struggling his overall FG% is around 35%, but his 3pt percentage is still pretty good. And his assists are up at 7per game and his assist to turnover percentage is way up over 2 to 1. And yet, it is his fault? People need to broaden their understanding of what is going on, it is not one player, it is the entire team. Did you guys know that Kevin Martin is not shooting all that well? Nope, he sure isn't...and in the 4th quarter when they let them play and stop calling the cheap fouls he draws, he can't get a bucket. Did you know that Yao Ming is under 50% for the year all while shooting from less than 2 feet away? Did you know that Shane Battier has been terrible on offense (probably everyone knows that lol).... This is a team wide problem it is completely an identity issue.......players do not understand what is being asked of them each and every night. Therefore it is a coaching problem. BTW - the 2 MVP's of the team so far are Scola and Lee........Scola has been great on O, but really bad on D...and Lee should be getting a lot more time as he can play D nearly as good as Shane and brings much more on the offensive side. Oh, and CBud is off to a good start overall, but his 3pt% is nearly as bad as Chuck Hayes FT%. DD
Ok...lets calm down guys...Brooks does look a little distraught, im not going to lie. But don't u think that it could be that he is just in a slump? Players have slumps dont they? The guy's avging 15ppg , 7 asst, and 3 TO...thats not that bad when Nash is avg 17ppg 7 asst and 6TO. I agree that things look off, and his D is not good...but i did see that his D was somewhat better initially in the game. Hopefully he will come out of the slump, or the rockets in general recover and decide how they want to run this offense..because clearly, the tempo changes drastically depending on who is in the game. I think once Adelman settles down with the system he wants to run, we should be fine. Thnx and Gig'em A&M 45- Ttech-27
This is a strange thread. KL did not run the offense near as well as Brooks. Brooks had some big time defensive lapses, but also made some good defensive plays. In that 3rd period when our offense disappeared it was KL running it, and turning the ball over, jacking up 3's etc. I think We need both of them. To blame this loss on AB is silly though. When he was running the team in the first 2 quarters we were winning.
I agree with you that it's not ALL his fault but let me counter your stats with mine, over the last TWO games... AB - 7/24 fgs and 3/12 on 3s AB - His assists have gone from 9 to 7 to 5 while he had 3 turnovers per over his last two games I understand you trying to defend your guy, I respect that, but he is an issue, no doubt about that.
His biggest issue last night was him being in foul trouble, otherwise his assists would be there and his shot might have had a chance to come around. I do like AB, I admit that, but I don't think we have a better option...and the fact that AB went to the gym right after the game to get some work in, should tell all the chicken little AB haters something about his heart. DD
You made me laugh again with your basketball knowledge. Do you know why he was in foul trouble? Was it just because he was unlucky? He "tried" to play defense last night. However, he was clearly not good at it and thus was in foul trouble.
Foul trouble, huh, well how about STAY OUT of foul trouble. I agree, Lowry doesn't seem right, there are no better options but he's the "floor general" and much like a QB, he gets the credit and the blame. The practicing after the game does impress me but unless he improves his game, it really won't matter much and if he wants that nice new contract he BETTER get his ass in the gym.
Well, if he is quoting stats from 3 games, I assume he knows that it's crazy to look at numbers at this point but wanted to prove a point about how the whole team is struggling not if they are good or not. I used his logic to prove a point about AB and his #'s, simple as that.
Great post. And to add to your answer, "Brooks may have something in his heart" but his decision to practice his shooting after the game shows he has nothing in his brain. His biggest problems are his defense, court vision, passing skills, and court generalship, not his shooting which should be fine as he is naturally a very good shooter.
So Brooks has 2 bad shooting games and we are going to kick him out of the team? WTF His assists and passing are way up. People have bad shooting games. **** happens. Don't judge his season by watching two games.
Yeah. Let's wait until this season is over before we can make any conclusions. After all, there is always the next season.
Utah is 0-2, time to blow up the season. They should trade Deron Williams too. I mean D-Will is playing worse than Aaron Brooks right now. D-Will is averaging 15 points on 27.3% shooting, 6 assists, 3.5 turns per game Stop being a knee-jerk dumbass.
