The protagonist of this issue is named Aaron. Brooks, nicknamed "Little Black Bean".
Aron. Brooks
In the 2007 draft, the Rockets selected a dark and thin player with the 26th pick in the first round, and then wore the No. 0 jersey to Yao Ming's side. In the middle of the 08-09 season, the Rockets traded away the team's main control Alstom, focusing on the cultivation of Brooks and the new trade of the small steel cannon Lowry, Brooks also successfully completed the transition from the bench to the starting.
Brooks is less than 1.8 meters tall, extremely fast, and good at shooting. At that time, he was very different from the traditional defender, his team control ability and physical advantages were insufficient, but he had a strong desire to attack, and more teams were willing to use such players as bench bandits. And the Rockets, such a non-traditional organizational guard, has also been questioned by the outside world, not to mention that the team's inner core at that time was a big man like Yao Ming. In fact, the Rockets are not willing to mention players like Brooks to the starting lineup, but the No. 1 position is really stretched, and the team has no choice but to do it.
However, at that time, the Rockets were full of confidence in the newly formed Big Three, and it was not impossible to have a player with characteristics like Brooks playing assist. However, at the end of the season, Yao Mai was injured one after another, and the third giant Artest could not be used as the core of the offense, and the rockets, which originally seemed luxurious, became a civilian team. When everyone thought the Rockets were going to become the belly of the West, Brooks played a stunning performance, in the playoffs against the Lakers, successively blasted a career-high 34 and 26 points, and led the team to win twice, Yao Ming's injury timeout made Brooks completely liberated.
In the 2010 season, Yao Ming recovered from injury and Brooks grew wildly, becoming the most improved player in the 09-10 season, averaging 19.6 points and 5.3 assists per game. Xiaobu, who had just tasted the sweetness, could not escape the curse of injury, and was put on the foot against the Spurs, resulting in a six-week break, and when he returned, Lowry occupied the starting position, and Xiaobu's fate was completely rewritten, and he has lived a career of wandering since then.
After traveling to many teams at home and abroad, in the end, the 34-year-old Brooks announced the end of his career in the Australian league with the tearing of the Achilles tendon.