which one of these is the proven player? Where are the rockets going ? What are they going to acheive this season? Is not getting a key young player back to his form a major priority? Or do we just give up on people like that?
you've said it all along because you're a bonehead. Even when he did play well prior to this season. Its funny how you guys expect t-will to do something and become cp3 from this.
hahahah sure dude, you mad? Go join both DD and Brooks in the corner and get each others sand out of your vaginas.
Look, HE IS NOT MAKING SHOTS. HE IS SHOOTING LIKE 25% from the field. Starting lineup or Bench does not matter at all. It's not like people create shots for him. Only reason I see him performing better in the starting lineup is that he has made up his mind that he is going to play crap till Coach gives him his job back. And, if that's the case then F him. He is not a team player.
I disagree with the statement I bolded, LTF. Martin, in my opinion, is clearly our best offensive player, especially if he is at the top of his game. One could argue that Scola is better than Brooks in that regard, as well. Not only is Luis averaging 19+ a game, he does it night in and night out, can explode for 30+ from time to time, and would, IMO, produce more offensively if we had an actual tall, athletic, defensive center to man the middle. I agree that Brooks hasn't been himself this year, but would he continue improving? Today, after seeing the results of the season so far, that isn't a given at all. We have a much better idea, I think, of what Martin and Scola can give you from game to game, than we do with AB.
THANK YOU. It seems people overlook an all too obvious trend and pick their scapegoat out. I will make one final point about salaries, because even though its in the rockets best interest to get the most for the least amount they have to understand that its not like the players are just going put their heads down and be ok with it. Over the last couple of years there has been major manipulation to drive down value when it comes to paying them. And thats pretty disrespectful on management's part. Sometimes we have to look at a situation outside of own shoes. Its hard as rockets fans, but to remain willfully ignorant of a strong trend is calling for this same mess every year. EIther way, they will have learned from this, and if AB is gone it truly would be a travesty from an investment point of view considering his play earned his the MIP award last year and he played great. If he leaves its not like his play is going to stay at the level it did this season, he will surely do a lot better on another team whether it be due to the time or change of scenery factor.
You got it. At best, Brooks is the third scoring option on this current roster with Martin and Scola 1 and 2 respectively. Brooks is simply not efficient enough to be the primary scorer. You can blame it on Yao not being here. But the other two guys would be way better with Yao here also. If Yao were here, Martin would be #2 option after Yao, and Brooks would be, at best a third option alongside Scola. We've got to deal with reality. Brooks is not efficient enough to be the primary go-to scorer.
Martin is a chucker that brought our level of play down to where the kings were when they had him. If you don't remember, we were in the playoff run last season. Lowry got injured, a key player in our rotation at the time and we lost a string of games and management decided to make a stupid trade. Do quick analysis of our record since hes been on the team. And scola is the best player.
Chucker must mean something different to you than to me. Chucker means a guy that takes a whole lotta shots and doesn't make enough of them. That's not Martin.
why look at it from this perspective? is that really how you look at things when it comes to the success of the rockets? As allegiances towards specific players? Wait, i forgot how well they were doing.
He quit on the team in the tradition of Pippen and McGrady. The Rockets have suspended him so there's no doubt now that he did what he did.
I suspect that, like me, he watches all the games, sometimes more than once. You can call Martin a lot of things. Easily breakable, lousy on defense, but a "chucker?" I don't know where you got that idea, but it sounds like another Rockets player.
what you guys refuse to see that with things heading in the direction they are, the rockets will be loosing out in the long run and parting with an asset they invested in. Its not about whether you like him or not. Its the fact that it will make the rockets worse. Please, try to think of it in those terms. These types of situations don't call for taking extreme sides, but looking at in terms of WHATS BEST FOR THE TEAM. The rockets have made too many mistakes the past 2-3 years, with mcgrady , with yao, its best to learn from those problems and concentrate solely about making the team better and neutralizing acidic vaginas many people on here seem to have.
Man, take a chill pill and relax. The numbers don't lie, Brooks sucks. So what, plenty of players have 1 year wonders but always come back down to their level. We were able to capitalize and traded Landry at his peak and got Martin. It might be too late to get something similar for Brooks. Brooks just isn't that good. Shoot first point guards are the worst type of players for a team.
Aaron Brooks suspended for Monday's game in Denver for walking out in fourth quarter Saturday. #hounews http://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/status/34304899348959232 From Jonathan Feigen Twitter
