I don't see how $21 million a year is going to empower Dillon Brooks to be *less* of a possession vacuum on offense. The fact that he's a slightly less shameless chucker than Malik Beasley doesn't change how much he takes off the table - the only player to take more shots than Brooks last year with a lower FG% was...Van Vleet. In 2021, j…
I don't see how $21 million a year is going to empower Dillon Brooks to be *less* of a possession vacuum on offense. The fact that he's a slightly less shameless chucker than Malik Beasley doesn't change how much he takes off the table - the only player to take more shots than Brooks last year with a lower FG% was...Van Vleet. In 2021, just two players shot more and worse, and in 2020 it was just Devonte Graham.
Feels like Udoka is betting on being able to coach him into line (in fact my initial thought was that this signing was as much about the Udoka redemption narrative as anything on-court.) But does he really want to be dealing with Dillon’s issues while also trying to figure out just what the hell the Rockets are?
Now that I think about it, the move certainly feels of a piece with the way they hired Udoka and were just like “we looked into it and it was NBD” about how he got fired in Boston.
I don't see how $21 million a year is going to empower Dillon Brooks to be *less* of a possession vacuum on offense. The fact that he's a slightly less shameless chucker than Malik Beasley doesn't change how much he takes off the table - the only player to take more shots than Brooks last year with a lower FG% was...Van Vleet. In 2021, just two players shot more and worse, and in 2020 it was just Devonte Graham.
Feels like Udoka is betting on being able to coach him into line (in fact my initial thought was that this signing was as much about the Udoka redemption narrative as anything on-court.) But does he really want to be dealing with Dillon’s issues while also trying to figure out just what the hell the Rockets are?
Now that I think about it, the move certainly feels of a piece with the way they hired Udoka and were just like “we looked into it and it was NBD” about how he got fired in Boston.