It's more like Lin's the complete player while Jennings' is the better offensive player at least one on one. As a team player, it's Lin by a mile. Anyway, they play the game completely different. Jennings' game is nearer to WB and Rose while
If you take ROI out of the equation and money out of play. There aren't many if any thing that Lin is capable of doing better than Jennings as a PG. I actually like Lin alot and wish him all the best but in all fair assessment Jennings is by far more talented of a player. We will see how both of them fair this year in their respective roles. I expect significant strides from BOTH players and well I wish Lin has a better season than Jennings =). Now that both of them have no shortage of talent around them, They should both avg over 8 ast per game and keep the TO to a minimum. Also hitting your open shots will play a big factor, along with being respectable on defense. So far the only thing Lin has proven to be better at is shot selection and FG% but Shot Selection should not be an issue for neither PG anymore. The primary function of a PG on either of these teams is to manage the offense, dont turn the ball over and hit your open shots. The icing on the cake is to play pressure D because you have help in the paint.
I get how they look on paper defensively. It's actually not half bad so long as they don't have Monroe as the sole big man out on the floor defensively, which they can definitely do now. But offensively, holy smokes, it looks like a train wreck. They should get good ball movement with their starting 5 which should help alleviate some of their offensive woes but they'll have to hit the mark a lot to get some respectable scoring. Otherwise, they have no real finishers from anywhere.
He's a bit boneheaded and maturity could go a long way, he has talent, but last year he was struck with the same curse that kept Curry down for years.
Detroit were all set for the future and Dumars went full r****d this offseason. Terrible GM, should have been fired years ago.
Goes on a hot shooting streak, cries about his organisation because he doesn't get selected to the All-Star game. Proceeds to brick for the rest of the season, much like he has his entire career with the exception of his rookie season which is looking more and more like an anomaly. Brandon Jennings sucks. I find it incredible that some people are still fond of him when he's a team cancer, a low BBIQ player, low efficiency chucker and delusionally expected to be offered max or close to max money. True Bucks fans have always hated the guy and are happy that he's gone. Maybe he'll carve out a niche as an off-the-bench scorer if he can swallow his pride but he's not a starting caliber SG and certainly not a starting caliber PG with his lack of facilitating skills.
About the whole "Jennings is underrated" argument. I generally find the "underrated" and "overrated" labels to be fairly meaningless. Whose rating are we talking about? People tend to have varying opinions on a player even in this thread, let along among all NBA commentators/fans/front offices, so unless we identify a specific rating first, the argument over whether a guy is under- or over-rated makes little sense. A more concrete discussion is whether Brandon Jennings is overpaid since we do now know his salary. My opinion is that he is correctly paid at 3 years $24M as reported. He is still young and has talent, but is clearly a step below the $10-13M/year PGs like Lawson (much more efficient), Curry (also much more efficient) and Holiday (bigger and much better on D). He also hasn't made a huge improvement in his 4 seasons in the league so how confident can we be that he'll fix things in year 5?
No kidding. What a horrible, horrible proposal... With that said, it can't get much lower after another debacle of an offseason.
This thread got me thinking back to the Ben Wallace Pistons teams and how tricky/random being a GM is. When Dumars got Wallace and they upset the Lakers for that first title in 2004, Dumars was being lauded the league over, even though he picked Darko over Melo, Wade or Bosh. I still remember my Pistons' fans buddies talking about how Darko has all the time he needs to become a stud and that it was still the right pick (seriously). Then in the 2005 Finals, if Sheed doesn't double off of Horry in Game 5 at the end, the Pistons are back-to-back champions. So let's say we can undo those 2 mistakes. Dumars picks Melo/Wade/Bosh instead of Darko and Sheed stays on Horry and Manu is forced to brick a shot and the Pistons win Game 5 and then probably the series (a fairly reasonable assumption). The Pistons are then back-to-back champs, putting them in elite company, and with Melo,Wade or Bosh they are in a great position going forward. Can you imagine Melo with a green light and that D to cover for him? Dumars then achieves legend status and the Pistons probably remain an elite team up to today. Instead the Pistons win 1 ring (still special but not nearly as significant as going back-2-back), the Darko pick haunts them as Melo, Wade and Bosh have Hall of Fame careers and they stay on the dreaded mediocrity treadmill for almost a decade. And now Dumars has to throw contracts to undesirables like Josh Smith and Brandon Jennings to field a fantasy league-like roster in order to save his job. Being a GM sure is interesting!
Why are people saying Detroit should trade Greg Monroe for Jeff Green? That would be a terrible trade.
Jennings is the better talent, but I would take Lin by a mile for our team. Talent isn't everything: see Shabazz Muhummad, Stromile Swift. When you have a team with Harden and Howard, the role player's job is to not lose the game. Jennings is the kind of high-ego player who is always itching to take terrible shots and blow the game. Lin won't do that.
It's quite pathetic how any thread about any pg in the NBA turns into a pointless ass Jeremy Lin debate
Imagine if JVG got ahold of this team Jennings Stuckey Smith Monroe Drummond I can just picture all the 60 point schlockfests. Would probably be a top 5 team in the East as well.
Jennings has the physical tools but lack the smart and discipline. That's not surprising because he never played college ball. Dumars has got to be convinced that they can make Jennings a much better player because they have 3 great point guards, past and present in Cheeks, Dumars, and Billups to set him straight. I think Dumars could have signed him for less but didn't want Jennings to feel underpaid and cause trouble down the line when he becomes a better player. He's going to shoot with a lot higher percentage just by cleaning up his shot selection; and a better defensive player by being more disciplined. $25M is a good deal for both sides.
