Ainge:Brooks D League run readying him for 'opportunity that's coming his way'

[GreenWarrior]

I like Bradley at the same time though I kinda feel he's like fool's gold right now. he's taking and making a lot of the right shots. but he's also taking and making a lot of bad shots as well. it's nice when they go in but when they aren't we look really bad. the same can be said for Crawford too.

I like that he's being aggressive but he and Crawford both need to stop taking these shots that we can get any time. if they're just going to dribble down the court and take a jumper without running any offense with 20 seconds left on the clock, i'd rather see them take a full court shot as soon as we inbound the ball because it's likely to have the same result.

[LarBrd33]

Wouldn't read too much into it.  He wasn't getting any minutes.  Now that Lee has been traded, there are minutes to be had backing up Bradley.  Bayless is a backup PG.

[gar]

Would hope that crawford is gone. He is a more consistent scorer than Bayless; but Rondo/Bayless and Bradley/Brooks makes more most sense. With Bayless in the mix and Rondo coming back have to think that Crawford is being shipped out. They have certainly done a good job advertising his abilities, just don't like his game.

[hwangjini_1]

so what did brooks learn while down on the farm?

here is an interesting article that breaks down, in detail, brooks' play in his third game in maine. the author spends a great deal of time looking at both the positive and negatives for brooks in that game.

by the end, you can read his game as either:

1. being as expected from brooks, can score but otherwise ineffective.
 
or...

2. his is brooks, but a glimmer of light may be showing and he may become a better bb player, not just a shameless scorer who stops the ball when ever it reaches him.

http://www.masslive.com/celtics/index.ssf/2014/01/marshon_brooks_tearing_up_d-le.html

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

Our best ball at times has been with Bayless at point and AB at SG. The only reason it stopped working last night was b/c AB wasn't hitting his shots (it was working very well for a while last night). Imagine what it will be once Bayless gets an actual practice or when a REAL PG is playing next to AB. Seriously, if Bayless could shoot, the combo of him and AB has worked better than Craw and AB one of late and the Craw and Bayless duo failed miserably. Even when Bayless was missing shots they were working well. The offense flowed so much better without Crawford. If AB continues to shoot as well as he has, if we keep losing anyway, CBS should try starting AB and Bayless together. Craw is needed right now but if talking trades, he is more of the odd man out... if he isn't scoring he is hurting us out there. I know I'm an AB fan but I don't get the love of Craw over AB... Craw as the SG off the bench behind AB (for cheap) I love, Craw starting over AB, no Sir! The problem is, if we keep Bayless (I think we will if he wants to stay), I don't see it working with Craw. AB contained Curry about as well as anyone could last night (except the mistake on the last play),  but people beg for bigger guards who Curry torches on the regular. Wasn't it Curry and Klay telling AB and Lee to go easier on them last season? I know you want a bigger SG but people still undervalue and underrate a 23 yo AB. A duo of RR and AB made our team one of the best defenses EVER, forget just that season. The problem hasn't been ABs size, it's been his shooting. I know it seems fun to say that AB isn't the starting 2 on a championship team but tell me how you know that? Because when AB was healthy, Mia didn't want any part of us! I'm not saying we win it with AB but we would have had a better shot (even with Bosh), we were a quarter away from trying... KG could have been out there with Bosh instead of leaving him wide open b/c he was trying to keep the guards (Wade) from abusing our guards, KG sucks in and I give Bosh all the credit for hitting those WIDE OPEN 3s. That left the paint locked down but the perimeter a free for all for Bosh.

All that I'm saying is if anyone, Craw is out (especially after Bayless trade) instead of AB. That's my opinion, I'm known to be wrong a lot, but it is what it is!