In PG,Houston,you have a problem.

Rome (Brooks) wasn't built in a day.

 

This loss is because of:

Missed free throws, Carl Landry being MIA again and the Blazers successful execution defensively on Yao. Oh and Rick might need a little blame for pulling Wafer.

PG was the least of this team's problems tonight.

 

artest+brooks for deron.

 

You make some valid points and Brooks did make a few boneheaded plays down the stretch but he has little to nothing to do with Roy and Aldridge torching us.

Just for the record, Lowry played most, if not all, of the 4th quarter against Dallas.

 

Brooks is NOT a natural point guard, thats why we have to modify him to make him a point guard and the best way for him to learn is in the play-offs! i am not mad at his mistakes now because it would benefit the Rockets in the future.
If we made him into a shooting guard then he would not be serviceble when we face the Lakers or even the Blazers now because the Kobes and Roys will post him up just like what they did against Head, but Brooks have a much better ball-handling and passing skills than Head so im confident that Brooks can be our point guard of the future.

 

The only time I was really angry with Aaron was the couple of turnovers he had late in the game... but that's from inexperience, not really because he's "not a PG."

Tonight was one of the few nights that I actually agree with the guys saying "Give Yao the ball." He just destroyed them in Game 1, and then all of a sudden we can't give him the ball at all?

I know they were fronting him and doubling him, but there were numerous times when he had good position and we went away from him. You HAVE to give him the ball if you want to win the series.

 

Lets face it guys, Brooks is not a point guard.

He is a shooting guard.

He tried to pass the whole game and failed miserably. Late in the game (ie last 2 minutes), he started shooting and went off.

 

Brooks played great in the 1st game.

Lowry played great in the 2nd game and kept us in the game for the most part.

Brooks screwed up in the 4th qt. with the turnovers but I thought the gameplan was all wrong but that is for a different topic.

 

It is about Basketball IQ, not about inexperience.

 

I honestly believe that if the Rockets Starting Point Guard was Chris Paul ppl on this board would be complaining about how bad our pg is. Yes there are several times when Yao should get the ball and the pg just looks the other way, but our so called "true pg" does the same thing.

(no this was not saying that Brooks is anywhere close to CP3)

 

This is soooooooo yesteryear.

 

you don't modify someone like Brooks, i wish some of you fans would get it through your head that BROOKS IS NOT A PURE POINT HES A SCORING POINT!!!!!!! do y'all think houston wasnt aware of this before drafting him!?!?! That's qwhy they drafted him, to have that option of a speedy scoring point to matchup with THE OTHER SPEEDY POINTS in the league or take advantage of slow points like the team with speedy points do! It's also why they acquired Lowry, who's more of a traditional point. Wow having two good pgs, but different, what a concept huh! We should just fire Landry and clone Scola, because having so much of the same is great! Gimme a break...

 

I have to say that Ive read some of you alls posts.
Ive listened.
And I think you're all nuts.

AB made some mistakes. Everyone out there did. But the only think that sucker did wrong tonite was that he didnt ball-hog like he shouldve. That dude was the only offense that was consistent out there tonite, besides Von.
Those 2 should be hogging like Ron and vica-versa.

AB is just fine. Everyone else in the league can see the threat that he will be...except you fellas on Clutchfans.

And tonites loss had nothing to do with AB. The only chance the ROX had to pull it out was because of AB's game. Work, yea, he needs some. He needs to learn how to PASS the ball to Yao when he calls for it. PERIOD. If Yao is fronted and still calling for the rock, PASS it.

But the guy did FINE tonite.
ROX hit their free-throws, they win.
Stop looking for a scapegoat.

 

East there... Brooks had 23 on 9 of 12 shooting and was 4 of 5 from three point land, he also had 5 dimes. Brooks is playing great but the rockets are never going to win when they only get 11 points from the so called superstar. Brooks was the reason this game was close. The reason they lost was because the three guys on the court with pants on and whistles in thier mouths, sucked so bad.

 

Anyone who uses the phrase "Houston you have a problem" in a thread title should be banned from this forum forever.

And I'm not joking.

 

he had like one bad turnover, everyone is exaggerating, maybe if we figured out a way to get the ball to yao when he's fronted, maybe if scola didnt hesitate so much on his j, maybe if landry had some post moves, then maybe, just maybe Aaron wouldnt have to force things and turn the ball over, dont y'all think?

And lowry did not play "great" this game, he had some good plays to draw free throws, but overall he did just a solid job, he was trying too hard to be physical and ended up with 5 fouls in less than 20 mins.

 

It's also about playing too fast... which is exactly what happened when he made those turnovers.

Jason Kidd has a phenomenal Basketball IQ, but even he made mistakes late in games early on in his career. It comes with the experience of being in those situations come playoff time... and, obviously, Aaron doesn't have that yet.

 

exactly, non rocket fans all talk about how great brooks is turning out, how big he's playing in the playoffs, etc. and yet some houston fans just b**** and b****, it gets old very quick. I swear if we had dirk they'd complain because he didn't block shots like a center and would demand they turn him into a traditional center.

 

Bingo!