Brooks is 1 dimensional, can score and that's about it. His size keeps him from being a good defender and he is very sloppy with the ball. Watching him yesterday with some of the bone headed plays he made for phoenix reminded me of why I'm glad he's not on the team anymore. Nothing personal, just business, I like the guy in person though, seems like a cool cat. He will tear it up one day for the suns and people will start harping about how we should have kept him but just not a right fit for the rockets. I predict once nash retires and he takes over as a starter, he will go back to being a 15 - 19ppg that can cause alot of trouble for other teams with his speed but his lack of defense and careless ball handling will prevent any team who has him as a starting pg become a championship contender.
It was never that I wanted him gone, I just wanted a productive player who wouldn't quit on his team. If AB would have come in with a better attitude before and after his injury who knows what might have happened. I like the trade, it brought us a VERY nice backup point with upside and a #1 pick that will probably be used to move up in the draft.
Yes. Did you not see how terrible the Suns played when Brooks was in? He was a -23 The other PG was a +20. Does it look any different when he was a rocket?
And you're complaining about someone complaining about putting a thread in the wrong place. What is your hobby?
Could you have just asked that question in the other 100 Aaron Brooks threads created in the past 24 hrs?
ABOFs are still stomping their feet, kicking puppies and making LSD-tripped claims that he's the greatest Rocket of the past 3 years. Everyone that has a basic grounding in reality gets that it was time to part ways and that we got more than decent compensation for shipping him out 8 weeks early.
Wow, you certainly get angry and beliggerant about relatively insignificant things. You got some issues. I think you should see a doctor about that...
You might be right. I may not have watched the game with as well trained eye as you. I appreciate your conversing on the topic civily. I guess I just wonder if similarly low scoring efforts by TMac or Kevin Martin in a playoff game(s) would be so readily explained away. Seems like superstars are usually expected to carry their teams no matter what the defense is. Nevertheless, we won the series, and maybe Yao contributed more than I originally thought.
he played horrid against us, like i thought. Its really mental for him imo. I think the departure was more bitter than some us on here thought.
this is a post i disagree with, surely he + everyone else could have done better, but why does everyone have a problem passing to Yao and why is it always their fault? Sorry, that one doesn't pass, Yao is too slow laterally, when he's fronted it clogs the paint up too.
Sura, Alston, McGrady and Francis disagrees with you. Francis and Brooks have the most similarities out of those 4, but even then he had no trouble getting the ball to Yao. And what's with the whole Yao clogging up the paint? None of our PGs before had trouble getting to the rim when Yao was around. Alston, as ugly as his tear drop looked, put up quite a good number of it near the rim. Luther Head and Yao had a bread and butter play we never see anymore, the give and go at the baseline which Brooks (with his incredible speed) never took advantage of. Heck now that I mention Luther Head, I don't recall him having much trouble getting the ball to Yao.
except he not everyone else was called out by Yao We all watched the games before. Tmac, Battier, Artest, Hayes, and Scola were all able to pass to Yao. Brooks is the PG so he is expected to do a better job than them.
did you even watch that series? yao did dominate portland, he even had a game where he was perfect from the floor and the line.
