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Now that he not only has a competant PF, but a future HOF next to him?

Last time Brook had someone to space the floor was his rookie year with Ryan, but he's come a long way since then. Sadly, he had paint cloggers in Humphries and Evans which made his game that much harder. Now he has KG, Pierce, and AK to help him out.

I for one am looking forward how this impacts him, and Deron as far as floor spacing. Plus as a bonus we have a better coaching staff.

Edit: Or will it diminish now that he doesn't have to be the top opttion?

Wow with all the moves going on i totally forgot about lopez. He will def have a much easier time in the paint cuz they cant double.

It's very possible that Brook has the best year of his career. The floor spacing will be excellent, he won't be playing with offensive liabilities and that alone will have a huge impact as he'll have all the room he needs to operate in the paint. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Brook led the league in points scored in the paint last year despite playing with Reggie Evans & Gerald Wallace. Not only is he playing next to players who space the floor very well, but he's playing next to four high IQ, great passers who will find him for easy looks, just like D-Will did all season long. With a bigger emphasis on ball movement from the coaching staff and unselfish players, Brook should thrive in this situation. Then there is the KG factor and how he'll mentor him into becoming a better defensive player & hopefully a more intense personality.

Then there is a better coaching staff this year. Kidd is a question mark but our assistant coaches are easily better than last year. Lawrence Frank should be a great assistant and he's also familiar with Brook. We hired Roy Rogers who is a big man coach, and has done a very good job with Greg Monroe & Andre Drummond in Detroit. Then there is John Welch, a highly touted coach from the Denver Nuggets who is known as a workaholic and an excellent all around assistant. We also hired Eric Hughes who is known as a player development coach. Of course, before the big KG & Pierce trade, Kidd was stressing Brook's importance & upside, and talking about how he needs to get more touches.

Basically, all the factors are present to take Brook Lopez's game to the next level. He has all the help he needs, he has veteran positive personalities helping him out, and he has the coaching staff to help him improve. Hopefully he stays injury free, because his precaution surgery to fix the screw is a scare. At the same time, I hope his conditioning improves so he doesn't fade out of games after his strong starts to the game. But as long as he stays injury free, I expect a big year from Brook.

Though an above average post player, Lopez is best playing off the ball, reading the offense and getting to spots where he can be in scoring position as soon as he gets the ball. he might be the best interior finisher in the league actually (23 ppg in 36 last year). With passers like Pierce, Garnett, and AK47 added, I can't imagine it will be a difficult transition. Can't say the same about the rest of the new guys, with the exception of AK, who has been a very flexible and adaptive player his entire career.

He should be a beast.

The high post, low post action with him and Garnett should be scary good and I'm hoping his passing takes off as well.

That hand off to the cutter he tried all the time with Wallace last year should be lethal with AK in his place.

I'd imagine Kidd and his staff will stress pick and roll as well, where Lopez is very underrated. As others have been saying for awhile now, Brook needs the ball in space as a finisher, not all these isos.

And if someone can teach Brook to stay upright with the ball high and initiate back to the basket moves with crisp shoulder fakes instead of that stupid crouched over effort filled rock pounding back in nonsense, he should be able to take advantage of the shooters all over the court to kick it out to.

His defense should benefit from more experience, better coaching, better defenders around him and hopefully KG and Kidd getting in his head. Also the obvious that Garnett can cover pick and roll switches and just limit the amount the other team can even choose to attack Lopez in that fashion by taking charge himself.

All this is moot though, the most important factor is will he be and stay healthy?

I hope KG corrects-- or at least shows him a more effective way of posting up. He finishes great, but his setup and gather is so slow he makes it hard on himself.

You can't double him, and considering about 25 teams in the league don't have a guy who can guard him one on one.....yes he should dominate this season. Playing with 4-5 great passers as well (including AK)

Garnett is one of the best passing big man in NBA history. And he's incredibly unselfish and is ultra willing to pass in the paint/down low. To me, KG's biggest affect (like in Boston), will come on the defensive end, obviously. His defensive intensity should rub off on Lopez & Williams. If KG doesn't rub off on Lopez, then it's all on Brook.

Aside from Joe & Paul, I think this team fits together perfectly. JJ and PP's games are somewhat similar..not mirror images, but a little similar. But at this point in Pierce's career, he doesn't need to be the primary option. Hopefully he will realize that b/c in the past few years with the Celtics, he tried taking over too many games on his own, and he wasn't having as much success doing that like he used to.

I think Brook's scoring numbers will decrease but his overall game will be the best of his career. I think he is going to get a lot of open looks inside and out. Brook is very good at moving around the basket area and getting open. In the past we only had dwill to get him the ball and jj some times. Now kg and pierce in there too he will get more easy looks. But I think he won't get as many shots as he did last season. I think his post up opportunities will decrease therefor decreasing his a scoring. But I expect the rest on his game to step up being next to kg.

How do you guys think the scoring is going to break down between our top 6 players?

D-Will: 15-17 ppg
JJ: 13-15 ppg
Pierce: 14-16 ppg
KG: 10-12 ppg
Lopez: 15-17 ppg
Kirilenko: 9-11 ppg

So that's like 76-88 ppg from our top 6.

I also expect D-Will to rack up 10+ apg EASY.

therealbig3 wrote:How do you guys think the scoring is going to break down between our top 6 players?

D-Will: 15-17 ppg
JJ: 13-15 ppg
Pierce: 14-16 ppg
KG: 10-12 ppg
Lopez: 15-17 ppg
Kirilenko: 9-11 ppg

So that's like 76-88 ppg from our top 6.

I also expect D-Will to rack up 10+ apg EASY.

i think d-will has a legit shot at MVP this season

I see us easily scoring 100+ points a night. Especially if we play up tempo/pick and roll basketball.

DWill will robably avg like 10apg. He SHOULD average more, but because PP & KG are so unselfish, he'll get a lot of hockey assist too lol. For DWill stat pad lovers (like me w/ Rondo), they'll be mutliple examples of Dwill making a sexy pass to kg who will pass up a good shot to pass it to Lopez for a dunk inside. & While this is beautiful basketball, Dwills asst will suffer lol.

Yes and No.

I think he will become much more effective at what he already does. Score efficiently, Work the offensive glass, draw fouls.

I think he will pretty much be the same guy he was in all the other areas ... still a weak defensive rebounder, weak pick and roll defender, and weak passer. However i think with better teammates those things will be very easily covered up for.. other then maybe the defensive rebounding.

I think he will appear to make a huge stride, but most will just be playing around better teammates.

therealbig3 wrote:How do you guys think the scoring is going to break down between our top 6 players?

D-Will: 15-17 ppg
JJ: 13-15 ppg
Pierce: 14-16 ppg
KG: 10-12 ppg
Lopez: 15-17 ppg
Kirilenko: 9-11 ppg

So that's like 76-88 ppg from our top 6.

I also expect D-Will to rack up 10+ apg EASY.

I think you'll see 17 and 9 from Deron in about 36mpg.
JJ will be 13/4/2.5 in about 32mpg
Pierce 15/5/4/1 in about 28mpg
KG 11/8/2/1/1 in about 26mpg
Brook 20/8/2/2.5 in about 30mpg
AK 12/5/3/1.5/1 in about 29mpg

Brook needs to be dominant. He should be playing 36 MPG plus and averaging 20/8 like I know he can.

Hello Brooklyn wrote:Brook needs to be dominant. He should be playing 36 MPG plus and averaging 20/8 like I know he can.

He's coming off yet another foot surgery on a team which is very deep at the 5 and just the front court in general. I do not expect more then 32mpg on the season and probably a touch lower, like 30. I do expect big numbers in that short amount of time though. 17/7/2/2 at worst, 20/9/3/3 at best, probably somewhere in between like 19/8/2/2.

vincecarter4pres wrote:

Hello Brooklyn wrote:Brook needs to be dominant. He should be playing 36 MPG plus and averaging 20/8 like I know he can.

He's coming off yet another foot surgery on a team which is very deep at the 5 and just the front court in general. I do not expect more then 32mpg on the season and probably a touch lower, like 30. I do expect big numbers in that short amount of time though. 17/7/2/2 at worst, 20/9/3/3 at best, probably somewhere in between like 19/8/2/2.

I think his foot is fine.

He will never be an elite player if he doesnt start playing a lot of minutes. Blatche is good, but hes not the most offensively talented center in the NBA.

We need Lopez to DOMINATE in order to get the respect he deserves. A 20/8 season is what he needs. And its not gonna happen in 30 MPG.

Brook can reach 20 PPG in 30 MPG easily. I mean he just averaged 19.4 PPG in 30 MPG this year so he was very close already to doing that last season. The rebounding I'm not too sure about (reaching 8 RPG in 30 MPG) but his rebounding should improve as he won't be sharing majority of his minutes with a stat padder like Evans. As long as he doesn't get lazy in going after rebounds, he can reach 8 RPG in 30 MPG.

DarkXaero wrote:Brook can reach 20 PPG in 30 MPG easily. I mean he just averaged 19.4 PPG in 30 MPG this year so he was very close already to doing that last season. The rebounding I'm not too sure about (reaching 8 RPG in 30 MPG) but his rebounding should improve as he won't be sharing majority of his minutes with a stat padder like Evans. As long as he doesn't get lazy in going after rebounds, he can reach 8 RPG in 30 MPG.

Garnett, I hope, would tear into his ass if this happens. I hope KG barks at him and Brook absorbs it well (I think he would, he doesn't have much of an ego and has a good head on his shoulder to distinguish when someone is trying to help him rather than putting him down).