People overrate what college ball can do for you. Going to college for one year would not have made Jennings a better/smart basketball player in the NBA. He went overseas which would require you to be more responsible than going to college anyway.
Definitely not, that trade would make no sense. With the Josh Smith acquisition I don't even know what move they should make. I guess ride it out at this point but I'm for sure Monroe is going nowhere
Unless you are the great ones with smart and skills like the Kobes and Garnetts, most will benefit from college, even one year, with the teachings of fundamentals, team concept, support systems, etc. etc. Jennings was paid to perform right out of high school in Europe, not to develop and be more responsible. He needed his mom and brother there so he wouldn't go insane.
They should just search for shooters. Maybe Afflalo for Charlie Villaneuva + picks. The Josh Smith/Monroe/Drummond rotation should work. They don't even need to play them all together that much. Jennings is an upgrade. But they still need 3-and-D guys on the wings, without giving up any of their current top 4 players.
Yea I do not think a lot of people watch Detroit and they have good reasons not to they suck. But if you did no way would you trade Monroe I think dude is going to be very good. With Josh Smith I think he's going to have a good year because he will be allowed to play his natural position now. Detroit will be fun to watch this year.
Someone did a great analysis on this, can you guess which player is which? Go here for the answer: http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1iq3f1/which_two_point_guards_are_being_described/
Thank you for the link. Have not visited reddit lately, obviously missed some good stuffs going on. Despite being a year younger than Lin, Jennings has played 4 years of NBA starter minutes and has been the Bucks' franchise pg ameaning he had the green light. In contrast, last year was Lin's first full year playing as a starter.
Winshare has Jennings and Lin as essentially equals as well, with Lin being slightly better in rate but Jennings in overall due to minutes. However, RAPM totally hates Jennings, it accused him being the worst defensive guard in the entire NBA last year, worse than the usual suspects of Nash / Calderon / Irving . that's scary, his overall RAPM outcome was terrible. where as Lin was decent. Even in years past, Jenning's RAPM on defense have always been poor. (granted, never quite as bad as last year's atrocity.) so I think it's fairly safe to conclude that he is indeed terrible at defense. what's worse is that, while you could argue Lin played in front of 2 really good defending Centers so far in his career, the problem is that Jennings also played infront of Sanders who was really great last year. RAPM and winshare both sees Lin as being pretty neutral defensively. Still, I think this move make sense for Detroit for one simple reason... Jennings is a functional PG. while Brandon Knight is more often poster material than starting PG material. The conclusion is that, Jennings i not unlike Lin, or even Jeff Teague, they're all relatively Young guards that have something going for them but a lot of other problems, and they all got paid similarly, some of them may overcome their issues and get better. some may not. I'll say that I would like Jenning's chances worse among the 3, due to perception of his character
Haha yeah, dead giveaway along with "struggles with players simply dribbling right by him and can be caught flat footed" If you had to guess without knowing the answer choices, it would have been much more fun
Oh hell no. Stuckey would be an awful fit. Can't space the floor; defensive liability. Not smart enough to be a PG, too small for SG. Stuckey should gget traded though, I just don't know who take him.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Report: Pistons still interested in Rajon Rondo trade despite signing Brandon Jennings <a href="http://t.co/j061M80kkB">http://t.co/j061M80kkB</a></p>— Eye on Basketball (@EyeOnBasketball) <a href="https://twitter.com/EyeOnBasketball/statuses/364049940776890368">August 4, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Aren't you being too idealistic here? First of all, you act like the NCAA has better coaches, teachers, players and competition than professional teams in Europe, are you kidding me? Euroball is leagues behind the NBA, but then again the NBA itself is leagues behind the NCAA scrubs like Derrick Williams, Beasley and Adam Morrison were dominating and recording 20-20s. In terms of just fundamentals, Europe has a lot more fundamentally solid players because their players aren't athletic freaks of nature who could dunk from the half court line every play. Secondly, playing in a foreign country and being inserted into a group of foreign men while receiving your own money teaches more responsibility than playing in college, getting drunk on weekends and having loads of sex with school groupies. Most of these "studen-athletes" don't even have to study, they just focus on b-ball, get a couple of useless classes and get handed a diploma after 4 years (or not if they stay only 1 year) as per their agreement. Finally, one year isn't enough to teach you about fundamentals, most college coaches are more skilled at recruiting/coaching than developing players. What's the point of developing someone who'll leave in 1 year? You only have 1 summer, 1 season and then the dude's outa' here, you think coaches will waste that time for development? Maybe a little bit here and there, but the bulk of the time will be spent on learning plays and building chemistry. College teams are perpetually on win-now, because due to march madness system anything can happen, everyone has a shot at the title. Actually the one year rule is horrible for NBA players, and good for everyone else. Colleges make $$$, NBA teams get one more year to evaluate these prospects (who all look like Shaq and MJ in hghschool), and the players get screwed because they essentially just worked for free.
Q&A with Joe Dumars by Zach Lowe http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/70731/qa-joe-dumars-on-the-suddenly-exciting-pistons-and-the-toughest-player-he-guarded-not-named-mj
