https://youtu.be/uNQz3FB9fuI
Armoni Brooks recently made his DTB debut by scoring 16 points on 5-of-6 shooting from the threezone. Now he has improved on that mark by scoring 20 points on…6-of-14 from the threezone. That’s eight more attempts for one more make, but it’s still a decent percentage, so I’ll roll with it. I would take fourteen three-pointers too if my team only had six players available to play. Since the goal of every possession is to take a shot at the basket, SOMEBODY has to take those shots.
Judging solely off the highlight videos I’ve uploaded for Brooks this season, one might think that he is an absolute sniper that every team would love to have come off the bench. However, if you take out the three-pointers from those two games, he’s shooting just 29% from deep, low enough to scare most teams away. Add in his 35% shooting from two-point range and you’ve got yourself a young player who is off to shaky start in the NBA, and is probably only getting minutes because the team he’s on is a verified poopoo platter.
That’s not to say that Brooks won’t stick around. My dream scenario for him is to turn into a combination of Anthony Morrow and Troy Daniels but more physically attractive than both of them. And when I say “dream scenario”, that literally means that I have dreamed about Armoni Brooks being a combination of Morrow and Daniels while being strikingly good-looking. I have yet to determine why my brain is giving me dreams like this.