Comments on: Most likely to improve enough to make life difficult for the Bucks: Brandon Jennings

By: KBela53

KBela53 — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:15:42 +0000

The Bucks are in a tough predicament right now. Before this season, everything pointed towards building on the Jennings/Bogut combo. With Bogut now in Golden State, the future of the team seems to be in a flux.

I’m not totally sold on Ellis, but we should be willing to give him a full year with the team, training camps/preseason etc.

I love Jennings, but his remarks about “doing his homework on large-market teams” shook my faith in him considerably. Not that it wasn’t expected per se, but it definitely wasn’t appreciated.

We can’t, nor should we, overpay Jennings to a max contract. The improvement is there, but he hasn’t done enough to warrant that kind of money, and we don’t want to sink this team into mediocrity like during the Redd years.

Sadly, I think we all know the outcome. Jennings will be gone, and we’ll be stuck right back in rebuilding mode, looking for that one player that can get us into the playoffs and further than the first round.

By: PattiRafalskiDavison

PattiRafalskiDavison — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:16:48 +0000

There is a lot of room between what Kobe Bryant is paid and what Brandon Jennings gets paid. Perhaps offering BJ $6M for a couple years would go a long way to making everyone happy. Brandon has not demanded max salary, but he’s been worth every bit of his rookie contract so far. I would like to see some compromise reached that would make everyone happy and allow me to watch Young Buck develop into that ALL STAR point guard he genuinely wants to become.

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By: flyingking

flyingking — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:56:26 +0000

Jennings will NEVER be as good as james harden is right now .And Mike Conley is overpaid. He and Brandon will never compare with a Chris Paul. BUT, Conley is more athletic than Brandon–at least at this point. Some team will give Brandon 8 mil a year. I doubt it’ll be the Bucks and i doubt Brandon wants to be here for any extended period of time. This team has ZERO building blocks now. They oughta dump everything they can for draft picks.

By: DarvinHam

DarvinHam — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:31:18 +0000

I can’t agree more with this article. The key to building a successful franchise in the NBA is to never overpay talent. Always hold the line. If Jennings is offered more somewhere else, let him walk and re-build, just don’t kill the cap for multiple years by handing out max money to non-max guys.
Just think, if we would’ve let Redd walked and actually would’ve rebuilded, we’d probably be pretty darn good right now.

There are too many lower tier teams who pay their one star like they’re Michael Jordan, it’s the biggest mistake made in the league and it happens over and over again.

If Jennings is sending out word that he’s only gonna go to the highest bidder, then move him. Start over.

Only pay max guys the max money; Jennings ain’t a max guy.