Aaron Brooks Dunks On Russell Westbrook
I love Aaron Brooks. I was lucky enough to watch him at the University of Oregon where he was a four-year starter for the Ducks and I fell in love with his game. He’s smart, he’s explosive, and at a generous 6-0, he’s got the heart.
We mentioned it this morning in Smack, but here it is: Aaron Brooks’ alley-oop finish on Russell Westbrook out of the halfcourt set from Brent Barry.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s starting for the Rockets by Christmas.
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October 14th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
craig990 says:
Kid is good!
Nice play!
October 14th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
gary says:
“hu hu hu are you kidding me?!?”
that announcer is WHITE!
hah…srry
October 14th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
David Brandon says:
@ aron,
is this really gettin dunked ON tho? when i think of gettin dunked on, its when wade was a rookie an banged on JO. or when CP hit dwight that time. or when bron was in the air and hip checked damon jones. lol!
October 14th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Kobeef says:
I had to see the video before I believed Brooks caught an alley-oop for a dunk. the guy has major hops – who knew?
October 14th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
PWEEZY says:
Yo he’s too good in nba 2k9
October 14th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Aron says:
@David Brandon
I agree. It’s not a straight flush on someone’s grill, but he did the swing around.
@PWEEZY
I agree. Also in NBA Live 09.
October 14th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
E$ says:
Ask any of Westbrook homies & they will say “How you let that little dude punch on you!?” It wasn’t Brooks fault he went over the screen instead of under
October 14th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
E$ says:
Why was PJ playing franchise players in the 4th?? Durant almost sprung his ankle for that win
October 14th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
LEGEND says:
Yo Dime! I think Elton Brand may have a little spring back check this out……
If the embad doesn’t work here is the link….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybJb26F5qs8
October 14th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
LEGEND says:
Yo Dime. I think Elton brand has some spring back. click the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybJb26F5qs8
October 14th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
sans says:
Man, Russell did not believe that Aaron Brooks could get up on him like that, shadowing the passing lanes. Barry even pointed up directly before throwing it…ha!
Aron, you a Duck? I’m typing this from the EMU right now, chilling my brain out from writing in Arabic for the past two hours. Give Austin hell–the Huskies are horrible. Almost got in a fight with a Huskie fan last year for telling him, emphatically, that Spencer Hawes had NO chance of being ROY. Hillbilly flipped a fn table at me, insisting I apologize before I kicked him out of my bar.
October 14th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
sans says:
Yeah LEGEND, JO took Elton’s money shot BLAM right in the face.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Aron says:
@LEGEND
That’s nice!
@sans
I’m not a duck, but went to school in Portland so I definitely saw my fair share of games in Eugene.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
control says:
Is that Brent Barry or Noochi from Chitown? Damn they look almost the same.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Homeless J says:
I’ve been able to watch Duck basketball and football games on local TV for years. Although good players do come through periodically, it’s not like a bigger area like NY or NJ or California where every year there are hyped up kids who the media follows from high school to college to the NBA. We don’t get a lot of players who we can watch grow over that period of time or that get their own shows on ESPN like Sebastien Telfair or Lance Stephenson. That makes it even more special and important to me when one does break through that I’ve grown an emotional attachment to from watching over the years.
And who knew he could even get up like that. I’ve seen him dish out a lot of those but I can’t remember a time when he’s done that before, off the top of my head.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Austin Burton says:
@sans — The Huskies are awful; I began the season saying Ty Willingham should get some leeway, but even I have to admit it’s time for a chance. But as bad as UW has been, the WSU Cougars are worse. They’ve given up 60-plus points THREE TIMES this year! (I went to Seattle U, and growing up didn’t grow a particular attachment to the Huskies or the Cougs; although my fiancee went to WSU and I lived in Pullman for a couple years, so I tend to side with them.)
@Homeless J — I’m with you on that one. I grew up with Aaron’s older brother, and went to high school for a year with Aaron. I’m thrilled to see him making his mark on the national stage.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
BitterSeattlite says:
Austin, you just lost cred. The Cougars are only relevant because we Huskies pretend like they’re rivals when our team isn’t doing well enough to compete with actual schools. The only school in the Northwest that even compares (academically or athletically) is U of O.
Granted, we’ve been atrocious at the two major sports as of late but let us not forget whose the Northwest’s premier, flagship institution.
P.S. If there are fellow huskies on the site (highly unlikely) I’m sitting in Schmitz Hall right now.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Austin Burton says:
@Bitter Seattleite — The Apple Cups during the Drew Bledsoe era mattered to UW, don’t fool yourself. The way I remember it growing up, even when UW was national championship caliber, the Apple Cup mattered (and was a game they could always lose). But then a Husky would never admit that, so I won’t press you on it.
The Ducks weren’t on the radar up here until Kenny Wheaton’s INT-touchdown in, what, 1994? Until then (at least how I remember it), Oregon was the school that wanted a rivalry with UW, but the Huskies weren’t bothered.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:40 am
mike says:
nothing suprising here, i knew he had hops like that after he slapped one of my layups off the glass so hard that it bounced out to half court a couple years back at the U of O student rec center, mad cool guy always down there mixing it up with us locals
October 15th, 2008 at 12:40 am
mike says:
nothing suprising here, i knew he had hops like that after he slapped one of my layups off the glass so hard that it bounced out to half court a couple years back at the U of O student rec center, mad cool guy always down there mixing it up with the locals