Rockets deal for Dillon Brooks (4 yrs/$86 million + incentives)

man those bottom 2 numbers are depressing, but brooks is what he is

 

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If you make a all defensive team you aren't more than decent as a defender.

 

all that stuff is voted on by humans, and i agree he's a good wing defender. He's so bad on offense though and so stupid that overall he's a massive negative as a player. He would have to be a center for his defense to be worth him being on the floor

 

I don't think Brooks is a low IQ player in the traditional sense. Perimeter defense requires a lot of bball IQ, especially if you're less athletic than the players you're guarding. He has poor shot selection on offense which is low IQ but he's actually good at setting screens and moving without the ball. If his shot selection improves, you can say he's a high IQ player.

Hart is imo a very mediocre player. Doesn't do anything major exceptionally well. The game is half offense and half defense. At offense he's a 10ppg player, that's his absolute ceiling. On defense he's closer to average while Brooks is top 2 at his position. He would be nice off the bench, but I wouldn't pay someone more than the MLE to come off the bench unless I was already a contender and capped out.

At the very least Brooks has one elite ability. I'm totally comfortable him guarding great wings. He made a mistake with Lebron this past season but he's been otherwise great at that in his career.

I'm not a Brooks fan, but I'm also not buying the Hart hype. Would have been just as unhappy with Hart at $80m.

 

Hart is significantly better than Brooks. And he is actually on an upward trajectory with his advanced metrics unlike Brooks.

 

There's no question any team would rather have Josh Hart than Dillon Brooks. You essentially have to play keep away from Brooks when your team has the ball or he'll sabotage your team, that's not the case with Hart.

 

I think people are in for a real surprise with brooks and how bad he is. There’s a reason that every metric says that he’s one of the worst players in basketball, and it ain’t cause they’re all wrong

 

I can’t believe we paid him this much and guaranteed 4 years .

I think Tate is better

 

Let's go to the charts.
Which of these guys is the better player?

This guy



Or this guy

 

I don’t care what my team is comprised of. Hart over Brooks every single time. Not even close. Even if you want to ignore the mountain of statistical evidence, it’s hard to ignore the fact that dumb players generally remain dumb.

 

I can. I think Stone is a terrible GM who has gotten very lucky up to this point. Eventually, though, I'm afraid his luck is going to run out.

I would have liked to have seen him get dumped along with Silas, and maybe promoting Eli Witus to GM
https://rocketswire.usatoday.com/20...iew-rockets-executive-eli-witus-as-future-gm/

For the sake of the team I really hope that I'm wrong, although the decisions he's made the past few years (outside of hiring Udoka) have not really given me much faith

 

https://www.si.com/nba/rockets/news...germany-fiba-world-cup-exhibition-nba-tracker

ugh....

 

Fathead Stone

 

Some people just can't understand how something impacts a team until it's on their team.

It took baseball fans years to realize that having a good defensive player who couldn't hit wasn't ok.

Having a horrible offensive player on your team who demands the ball is brutal for an offense.

The only reason I'm not all that mad is because I don't expect them to be a good team anyway.

 

This 100%.

"Heart", "effort", "tenacity" means nothing if you are not a good basketball player.

Brooks should have been an MLE guy for a contender.... not a major signing for a team like the Rockets.

 

Man he's a perfect example!

 

All those Rockets legends! I hope Dillon will be a Rockets legend soon.

 

A mle contract is $15m in the 4th year, so he is overpaid by $5m the final year under current cap. But by then a mle may start at $20m the way cap is rising.

For a team who’s reputation has plummeted and is desperate to become better, $5m a year is less than peanuts, it’s really not worth even talking about.