So Brooks leading his team to two wins over the best team in the NBA does not equal Parker leading his team to a trouncing by the Mavs? OK And Brooks was thrust into that role due to Yao's injury. I'll take Brooks performance against the Lakers over Parkers against the Mavs.
Brook's is still a young guy, this was his first year as a starting PG and also had the role of being the main offensive playmaker for a team devoid of its upper echelon players.
Brook's main issue now is maturity, consistency and getting stronger, but he was never supposed to be the main guy on this team. His overall performance in that role was outstanding. Coming into the year that was one of the big questions, could Brooks elevate to be an upper echelon PG, he answered the question in spades. He still has more up side.
Yep there were times he had lapses on both sides of the floor. There were many times he got hammered or roughed up and it was not and he let it frustrate him and ultimately it would effect his game especially his defense. There were times he struggled on offense and that effected him on D and it effected the whole team. He is a bit moody. But so was Parker in the same period, though Parker was much younger when he came in the league.
Furthermore, the amount of minutes the guy played and in the Rockets preferred style is outrageous. I can assure you that any other PG in the league would have slower guys dribbling around him a time or two when you spending over 40 minutes on the floor and you are your teams main offensive weapon to boot.
We are seeing that happen with D Williams with the Jazz. He just is not showing the level of play or energy that he did against the Nuggetts and I think Billups is a much better PG and defender then Fisher. Williams ate Billups up but he is showing a price for it. Plus LA is defending Williams differently and in the games Brooks 'didn't show up' the Lakers were determined that Brooks was not going to be the one to beat them!
Still the main point of this thread is the rating of PGs. I would Parker the edge over Brooks , but not by much and I don't think we have seen Brooks hit his peek yet.
Again Parker ain't exactly known for his defense either.
Brook's is still a young guy, this was his first year as a starting PG and also had the role of being the main offensive playmaker for a team devoid of its upper echelon players.
Brook's main issue now is maturity, consistency and getting stronger, but he was never supposed to be the main guy on this team. His overall performance in that role was outstanding. Coming into the year that was one of the big questions, could Brooks elevate to be an upper echelon PG, he answered the question in spades. He still has more up side.
Yep there were times he had lapses on both sides of the floor. There were many times he got hammered or roughed up and it was not and he let it frustrate him and ultimately it would effect his game especially his defense. There were times he struggled on offense and that effected him on D and it effected the whole team. He is a bit moody. But so was Parker in the same period, though Parker was much younger when he came in the league.
Furthermore, the amount of minutes the guy played and in the Rockets preferred style is outrageous. I can assure you that any other PG in the league would have slower guys dribbling around him a time or two when you spending over 40 minutes on the floor and you are your teams main offensive weapon to boot.
We are seeing that happen with D Williams with the Jazz. He just is not showing the level of play or energy that he did against the Nuggetts and I think Billups is a much better PG and defender then Fisher. Williams ate Billups up but he is showing a price for it. Plus LA is defending Williams differently and in the games Brooks 'didn't show up' the Lakers were determined that Brooks was not going to be the one to beat them!
Still the main point of this thread is the rating of PGs. I would Parker the edge over Brooks , but not by much and I don't think we have seen Brooks hit his peek yet.
Again Parker ain't exactly known for his defense either.