Do you want another characteristic that all of them have? They can all score, and they are all threats on offense. Scoring Brooks > Pure Point Brooks. This is the sole reason why we have Lowry. Its a 1-2 punch. Brooks is a hibachi grill (at times) and Lowry is the stabilizing flow to our offense. At this point, we're not going to get anyone good for trading them, and since we're not going to get John Wall. They are THE future for the Rockets.
Come now, this should be easy for a forumist like you. If your happy he is gone and happy with the replacement, say so but dont go dissing the guy. Calling names and saying he suxors is straight out dissing. OP needs to man up and just straight up say he is happy is gone, celebrating a new holiday and end it with that. Kthxsbye. but when you add in those few extra unnecessary words it becomes, well, unnecessary. thxs, Alston for the D you brought as it was your only game and thxs for bring us Lowry.
No one is calling him a HOFer...and when you're done viewing the world as black and white get back to us on it. the Rockets are 6-1 when brooks sscores 20+ but oh wait...he is a PG so its supposed to be 10+ assts thats supposed to be outstanding
Yes lowery is better, but at the time the rockets got alston. He was the best option at PG out there... Don't get me wrong I really diddnt like the guy, but like I said. There weren't any other good options out there that the rockets could realistically get.
Damn, the guy still gets five pages per thread in the GARM. One massive thread raised his average to around 15-16 pages per Rafer thread. Let the man RIP. To think he will be gone from the NBA next season and still getting threads in the GARM.
You know what seems funny, whenever brooks is having a good day, it seems everyone else is too. Whenever he is scoring double digits seems like we got 5 other rockets who are as well. just saying
Was he perfect?, No. Was he a brick layer?, Yes. Did he work his tail off?, Definitely! I enjoyed the way he talked straight and fought for his job. I loved his blue collar attitude and hard work mentality. Do I wish he would have shot a better %? Yes But Honestly, to me that's better than "not" leaving it out on the floor. I wish Rafer the best of luck, but I still liked the trade. Lowery leaves it all out there too.
Well JVG thought that way and that's why Rafer was his man. Rafer was the type of PG, JVG liked and wanted. Take care of the ball, run "his" offense, a tough player and defender that could be a extension of himself. He micro-managed every move on the court and did not want you to stray from his plan. This is precisely the reason he did not see eye to eye with Stevie. It was a power struggle, with the player nicknamed the "Franchise". Steve loved to freelance and take plays into his own, this was Steve's biggest flaw. This was also the reason Rafer was "not" the type of PG Adelman wanted at PG. Rick wanted a shoot first, fast point guard. Rick tends to think outside the box. Which is the reason why I couldn't stand JVG, and I love the way Rick runs this team.
I choose to remember skip by his 38 point performance ass whoopin on the Lakers, to give us number 22. He was a hard worker and fighter. Hope he does well in NJ eventually.
Aw, come on, Rafer wasn't that bad. Remember last year in the playoffs, when he was injured, we lost the first two games. Then when he came back, we won the next two out of three, and were competetive (with the help of T-Mac's 28) in the first half of the 6th game. Then he re-injured himself at the end of the first half, and it was all downhill from there. Don't hate, he worked his butt of for this team, what more can you ask for?
<br> Yeah, this is necessary. I don't understand where the concept came from that just because a player tries hard, we should refrain from hating. I wanted to cringe every single time I saw Rafer in a Rockets uniform. The only time I have ever praised Rafer is in that series two years ago against the Jazz when he was T-Mac's only help. The guy was horrid. Effort? Who cares. Good for Rafer. He should have never been given those minutes in the first place. It's not his fault, you're right. That doesn't mean that I can't hate on him. And all this about Rafer not b****ing, yeah right. I can't pull out sources right now, but I recall that Rafer had little feuds with McGrady and Artest. It wasn't as if he was some sort of angel off the court either. He was probably the guy that had the most character flaw (excluding Artest) on the Rockets the past couple of years. His multiple arrests for offenses such as DWI and assault sure proved that one. If anyone wants to hate on Rafer, there is more than enough reason to do so.
If we can remember the great players, can remember the bad ones too I guess... I saw Spanoulis mentioned earlier, talk about digging up past players...With that, he basically lent the same kind of game Kyle Lowry does. Some bulk to his frame, deceptively quick, aggressive driving the paint, not afraid of contact in the paint once he gets there, decent passer, looks to get others involved but more turnover prone, not a good outside shooter but okay close in, active and willing on defense even flops a little. Not saying he'd be as good or better. Maybe just a poor man's Kyle Lowry. Compared to Luther Head being just a poor man.
It was never about being a Rafer lover. During his first couple years here there was no better alternative as shown by the fact that both JVG and Adelman played him major minutes. When Brooks was drafted, everyone knew he needed some time to adjust to the NBA game and also become a PG that ran the team. He wasnt ready to just become the starter. Remember Artest blowing off Brooks when Brooks tried to call a play. Brooks needed time before the team was ready to believe he could be the starting PG. Its not like anyone here believed Alston was the future or some superstar player. When the team felt Brooks was ready they dumped Alston. Simple as that. As for the rest, what does him being on the Nets have to do with anything. Trashing Alston for being on the worst team in the NBA would be like saying Devon Harris or Brook Lopez suck cuz they are on that team too.
Spanoulis is TO prone and KL isn't. This is big difference. Span is used as SG more often at Greece, But he's no Manu in NBA.
If you didn't notice at least half the board had the same opinion as you about who should start, just like how over half the board has the same opinion about McGrady. On the other hand, you were pretty much alone when it came to V-Span, Maggette, Marcus Camby etc. Alston was a good player. He had a good passing skill set, but his scoring skill set was atrocious. Alston would be a decent backup PG on a championship team.
I don't know if I would call myself a Rafer-supporter because I knew his shooting would continue to be a problem in the Rockets' system when teams sagged off of him, but at that time, there was no better option for us. It was either trade for another bad-to-mediocre point guard that might give us more offense or stick with Rafer and accept the good and the bad. It wasn't like the Rockets' were going to fool another team into taking him without getting something horrible back (i.e. a horrendous contract). He did a nice job running the offense and calming the team down when things would start to get out of control, but ultimately, that floater ( ) and his horrible shooting got the best of him. I despised that floater and when I am playing ball and I see someone do a floater, I get nightmares being reminded of seeing Rafer do that! The guy did the best he could with his limited skill set, wasn't a lockerroom cancer even when he knew his time was running out, and left on a good note with the team even though he lost his job to a 2nd year player. Thank him for his services, be happy that management was smart enough to see Brooks' talent, and let the man live.
Why so much hate on Rafer? When Alston played with Yao and Tmac, he was quite good except shooting. His +/- over the years with Rockets should be much better than AB's +/- this year, I believe. AB fits current team better than Aslton because it needs scorers, just like AB would be better as starter than Lowry on current team. But if Rockets have a team loaded with scorers, Both Lowry and Alston would be better than AB, becuase there is only one ball to share on offense, defense and distributing the ball become more important.
I'm not really sure how Brian Cook's contract is a poison pill...I think you have that term confused with another one
Rafer got to the finals last season, thats one place we haven't been to over a decade. He's closer to his home town now, and who knows, if Nets move to Brooklyn, he'll be the happiest PG in the NBA.
