Sorry, but I've seen Luther Head pass it to him so many times compared to Brooks. I am not ok with Brooks not passing to Yao when he is in good position, what happens if the defender later decides to front him? Then Yao will not touch the ball at all unless he gets an offensive rebound. Sorry, I know the Rockets won, but when the Rockets start playing contenders and the same crap shows up. We all know who to blame.
what the hell, luther cant make an entry pass at all. brooks is much better at passing the ball into yao. he does it all the time, only a couple times this season it was too low resulting in a turnover. brooks isn't on the floor with yao a whole lot so you just dont think he passes it to him.
No, For the last 2 games and the Spurs game. I clearly remember Brooks never passing it to Yao when he was in good position. Neither of them pass it to Yao, but at Least Head does it more often.
I'm just going to point out again. Yao has had 30 points in both games Brooks has played PG. If they want to front Yao they'll do it as soon as we're down there. As a team we have to learn to swing Yao to the other side of start him on the weak side so that he can get around that. Which happens to be something we've been doing a lot better on. And don't talk about Luther giving Yao the ball. His definition of a post pass is to stand in front of Yao for 7 seconds trying to decide to pass it or not before finaling trying an ill fated bounce pass or lob into the defenders arms. There's a reason Brooks has been getting 40 minutes of PG play since Alston's been out.....
BTW I heard Adelman clear when he said, he don't want to force the pass to Yao. If the angle is not there or the risk is to high, quickly rotate the ball, to give Yao a better chance to catch the ball and reduce the amount of unforced TO. So far so good Yao is getting better position and higher FG% while Turning the ball over less.
Yeah, one game impressed me alot, road game vs Spurs, AB went through the bottom line, and blocked by Duncan, but at that moment, there were no defenders front of Yao, he was wide open, but AB didnt pass that damn ball to Yao, in my opinion, AB should took responsibility of that loss..
The play was designed to get him open, not Yao. He could have pass it to Yao when Duncan went for the block but he maybe didn't know how much time was on the clock.
In that game I agree he didn't go to Yao when he needed to. Rafer said that would have been his priority down the stretch if he had been playing. The past few games however Yao's been getting a steady diet. Yao will take the ball from whoever will give. Just usually it's tracy because he knows how to do it.
OK, the "racism" bit is just dumb. Let's leave it at that. Now, I won't pretend to be an NBA caliber player, but in my humble pickup game experience, I do know that as a shorter guy passing to a big man with more than one guy on him - it can be daunting to say the least. Right now Brooks is learning the NBA game. Yes, he has an incredible center to pass to...but when he has 2 or 3 guys on him or ready to cut him off, I can see why he'd pass out to the wing and keep the ball moving, rather than just lob it in. It's funny, OP - you see Brooks not dumping it to Yao as "racist," whereas I (and probably many others) see it as a raw, young PG trying to keep the ball moving and the offense flowing. Aaron Brooks has impressed the hell out of me in these past two starts, and I think that the offense has improved. There are a lot of legitimate criticisms you could throw at Brooks right now: He's nervous about passing into the post; he's only looking at his man; he is not paying attention to the outer movement; or that he is watching the clock with his mind made up...all things you could say about a young dude learning the position. Bringing racism into it? That just de-legitimizes any other observation you can make on the subject. This is all in my humble opinion, of course.
I dont think AB is our future PG, his shooting selections arent always acceptable, but his is luck enough, many 3 points shot made.
Aaron Brooks is a 5'10 version of Monta Ellis/Barbosa. Narrow court vision, blazing fast, can't pass that great, and always looking for their own shot first.
first steve and cat, then sura, then mike james, then rafer and now aaron brooks. Damn it sucks that the rockets somehow always manage to find a point guard that wont pass the ball to yao. it seems whoever is playing with yao never gets him the ball. the guy scored 30 again and more importantly the rockets won why bring up stupid nonsense like this?
AB is the Bobby Jackson version in Adelman system. He is best effective when he attack. Adelman motion system do not required of a dominating play maker like CP3, Nash, Williams etc. rather it requires of 5 good, willing high IQ passer on the floor. Mike Bibby with Sac. avg. about 5+ Ast and you can argue that Webber was the best play maker on the team. He have prove he can handle PG duties with this team under Adleman offense, but he is better for us to be the back up point this year.
You make a good observation there... But yeah, I think Aaron Brook's post passing sucks, hell, his passing sucks period. Kinda like mike james, but quicker and more athletic.
