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Marc Stein Passes on Houston Rockets guard Aaron Brooks for MIP

13 Apr 2010 05:41 PM
by rahat huq

Yet it came down to these two at crunch time: Houston’s Aaron Brooks and the irresistible Wallace, who prevents me from supporting Brooks’ bid to become the first Rocket to win some individual hardware since Steve Francis’ rookie of the year campaign in 1999-2000.

Lil Brooks made an undeniable leap into the scoring void created by Yao Ming’s season-long absence and the inglorious end to Tracy McGrady’s career in Houston. He’s the face of a gritty bunch that was never expected to play .500 ball and had to deal with the curveball of losing fellow MIP candidate Carl Landry in the three-way trade headlined by T-Mac and Kevin Martin at the February deadline.

Wallace, however, outimproved Brooks and everyone else.

via Marc Stein’s Weekend Dime: The Award Winners – ESPN.

Marc Stein explained his pick of Gerald Wallace for the Most Improved award over Houston Rockets guard Aaron Brooks.

UPDATE: I should clarify that I do not think Aaron Brooks deserves this award.

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  • Greg
    As far as individual awards go, I still think Battier was robbed last season for Defenseive Player of the year.
  • bob schmidt
    I did a double take on this one..........looking over the stats of this season for Brooks compared to Wallace I see that Brooks improved his scoring from 11.2 last year to 19.7 this year. A plus 8.5 points per game. His assists went up from 3 to 5.3, rebounds up .6 per game, and steals up .3 per game

    Wallace was up 1.7 points per game, 2.3 rebounds per game, down .6 assists, down .2 steals, with almost 4 minutes increased floor time per game. (His rebound increase was 1.4 per 36 minutes.)

    Question is this, does an increase of 25% in rebounds (2.3 per game) equal an increase of 8.5 points per game? Not to me. Wallace had a great year, but his PER from the prior year actually went down slightly from 18.6 to 18.3. Brooks' PER went up from 12.9 to 16.0......

    Between the two, Brooks is my MIP. Against others, I'd have to study a bit more.
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  • p10maggs
    why would any houston player even be acknowledged?
  • Typical that a former DALLAS sportswriter would say that.
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