Are you insane??? Really?? You obviously think your more knowledgeable than you are. Jeremy Lin is a bottom tier point guard, terrible ball handler & poor decision maker. He does nothing better than Jennings other than marketing $$$. First off, Jennings is Milwaukee's 1st option most nights, which means he's facing different levels of defenses than a 3rd option like Lin. Secondly, he's playin for Milwaukee where nobody wants to play. You put him on a team where he'll have the spacing to create off the dribble and create for others he'd be a top 5 point guard (unlike Lin). If you were a GM and passed on Jennings for Jeremy Lin you'd be the laughing stock of the NBA
honestly, you come off as the guy that pretends to know more than he does. jennings is not a good pg. he got benched at times this year because ellis/redick was a more effective backcourt. he's a high volume inefficient player that isn't particularly good defensively. how in the world do you think he'd go from a mediocre player to a top 5 pg because he changed systems? you severely overrate systems then...especially b/c on this rockets team, he wouldn't even have that freedom because we like to run our offense through harden. i mean all he's proven is that he hasn't improved since he's come to the league. poor shot selection is jennings game, so i don't even see how he's a better decision maker than lin. what makes anything jennings has shown MORE impressive than what brooks has shown in his career? im serious. brooks had a 20 ppg season leading our team to over .500 season with greater efficiency. you do know the bucks were 3rd in pace two years ago right? and that the bucks have a center that gets out of the way on offense, a ball dominant 2, a shooter at the 4 with ilyasova (prob the biggest position to create spacing) with guys like delfino, dunleavy, or this year redick as floor spacers. it's not like he's playing with a bunch of bums that didn't space the floor..like say iverson did in his early philly days. the gm's that are the laughing stocks of the nba are the ones that think just like you. the ones that get enamored by the highs of a player while ignoring the lows. the ones that don't look at team fits, and just tries to acquire "talent," regardless of if they use that talent the right way. the ones that don't seem to comprehend the name of the game ultimately comes down to efficiency in all regards of basketball. jennings epitomizes a low efficiency chucker with poor shot selection and a me-first attitude.there's a reason the nuggets greatly improved with billups instead of iverson a couple years ago. there's a reason the warriors improved without ellis thru addition by subtraction. jennings is one of those sort of players.
Dude, you just described Lin's season in a nutshell. Benched? Inefficient? Poor shooting? Not good defender? The only thing you forgot was turnover prone. If Jennings is mediocre by your standards, then Jeremy Lin is garbage. The difference is Jennings is number 1 option facing double teams every night, while Lin's the 3rd option who's missing wide open 3's and turning the ball over at a higher rate Um, did you even attempt to watch any Rockets games this season? Lin was a turnover machine and horrible decision maker all season. It got too the point even the Rockets announcers were getting frustrated watching Lin. If you cant see how Jennings is a better ball handler and decision maker then your either blind or don't understand basketball. Jennings handles have always been nasty. Dude, you'd make a horrible GM. Lin is terrible. While Jennings ain't elite he's light years better than Jeremy Lin. You wouldn't make it half way through the interview selling a owner on Jeremy Lin
Is there any way I can filter out any thread in which the words "wait for it" appear in the OP? Please?
yea. i don't even know why i replied. it's clear what his agenda is, and he has no ounce of bball knowledge or tries to make a legitimate argument. just making up stuff to fit his propaganda. rofl, jennings is always facing double teams??? wtf?? who double teams jennings? teams WANT him to chuck, not get it out of his hands. if anything, ellis is their #1 option anyway. and he says jennings has the potential to be a top 5 pg too in the right system. wouldn't the right system have a floor spacer at the 4, a defensive anchor to cover for his deficiencies, and couple shooters/secondary ball handler? JUST LIKE THE BUCKS? he couldn't even lead the team to a .500 record in the east. he isn't even one of their two best players impact wise. plus he has no substance in his post. all he says is "dude lin sucks, lolol." "lol dude ur stupid." i saw every game, and while i didn't get the rox commentators for every game, im pretty damn sure i never heard them complaining about lin's decision making all the time. lin was more efficient than jennings this season. he's also a much better defender (anyone that watched the rox, and isn't agenda ridden good at least tell you that lin for the most part was a pretty good team defender..could improve as a man defender). plus the last 40 games of the season also shot 38% from three. his per36 stats post all-star break was 17/7 on 55% ts. that's another note. jennings raw volume is only higher cuz he also played more mins.. he says lin is inefficient. jennings is even more inefficient, and he's shown no signs he'll be more efficient. heck, he even tried to play off the ball next to ellis this season and wasn't any more efficient. he's played on a top 3 pace team before, and wasn't any better. lin on the other hand was quite efficient after the all-star break, and showed tremendous signs of improving. he turns it over less (jennings does), but it's cuz he literally chucks it instead of turning it over. we don't need a pg that takes 16 shots, and shoots under 40%. hell harden only took 17 shots. it's my fault for fueling the fire..i usually try to ignore the trolls. but this guys agenda just got to me. sorry.
The truth is that you're a Lin troll. ...and your posts don't lie. You think that saying Lin is a scrub hurts me? That's where your problem lies.
Yeah, I probably should have qualified that with "if we've got cap flexibility to spare". But if we can take a $5m hit, then it's worth signing him up at that price since there is still a tiny chance he changes his attitude and starts to improve. I also think that, at that price, we could find a trade partner to take him fairly easily if we wanted to.
~lol~ I don't even bother. Talking about bias. Royce White > JLin for some people. What's up with this? What is wrong with the world? It's getting better I suppose, no mob. One should appreciate I guess.
Jennings is a scorer that dominates the ball...that is NOT what houston needs at the PG since we have Harden as our primary scorer...we need someone with a George Hill style of game. Can hit the spot up 3 consistently, run the team, and can control the game. He does not have to be a superstar.
Generally agree. Although I'm not really sure how well George Hill runs the team, or controls the game. From the playoffs against the Heat, I see Paul George doing more of that than anyone else. I guess the type of player you're thinking of is a Steve Kerr or B.J.Armstrong type? Strong spot up 3 specialists?
