Am I the only one that would rather have Brandon Knight over Brandon Jennings straight up? What a steal for the Bucks.
Jennings has at least shown talent especially early on in his career, what has Knight done? I think some tweaks to Jennings game and he could become a better player and maybe thats where Billups could be of real value this year to Detroit. The guy is only 23, Steph Curry just had his breakout year and he is 25. There is no reason why the league should be writing this guy off. At $8 million a year he is a steal.
They're pretty much doing what the Rockets did. A couple of big contracts and a lot of cap flexibility. Jennings could be a good fit with Smith who will be their main playmaker.
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Well, this how you tank without people noticing. Sign two low BBIQ players to chuck up the mid range jumpers.
Whereas Knight is efficient? If anything Jennings is one of the best examples of what Knight projects to be. Fact is, Knight shares all of Jennings weaknesses, and none of his strengths. Jennings is a slightly better defender, slightly better at the line, and as a passer he's better by a WIDE margin(2.57 vs 1.48 A/T). It's a clear upgrade.
Pistons making big moves, It prolly wont mesh well,but they might be a bottom seed team in the East now.
I didn't know this. So where do they play? Is it like the equivalent to playing Rockets games in Galveston?
Not saying that Knight is better at all, or that Milwaukee got a great deal. In fact, I'm pretty sure that they didn't get a very good deal. The issue is one of leverage: Jennings wanted out. He was threatening to take the 1-year qualifying offer if he's not traded to a team that he wanted to play for. Taking the qualifying offer would basically render him untradable during the season (he would hold veto rights over all trades) and allow him to leave for another team at the end of the year. Milwaukee blinked and decided that taking Brandon Knight (who hasn't been good, but still has upside) is the best they could salvage out of the situation. They could have dared him to take the qualifying offer (1 year, $4.5M) instead of signing long-term deal with Milwaukee (at roughly the $8M/yr that he got from Detroit)-- Jennings would be putting a lot of money at risk, but apparently the threat was realistic enough for them to take it seriously.
Billups also emerged in Detroit himself. Depends how much Billups takes to a mentor role, and more importantly how much Jennings would be receptive to it. Jennings does have some talent, he has a little upside left. He didn't say that Jennings wasn't an upgrade. He just said Jennings doesnt deserve the "underrated" label. Jennings warts and all is a definite upgrade. If coach Maurice Cheeks can get them all to buy in, they'll have decent improvement.
This MIGHT show the Lakers what their 2014 free agency hopes of Melo and Kobe will look like. Who do you think takes more offbalanced low-percentage 3s, Smith or Jennings?
Its time morey, lin to bucks and asik, d-mon/t-jones sum cash and future couple draft picks for aldridge.
