Comments on: Blah blah Brandon Jennings blah blah Contract blah blah Agent blah blah Max

By: Choosing a First-Half MVP for Each Team: Eastern Conference | Alone In The Green Room

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:41:53 +0000

[...] Milwaukee Bucks (Brandon Jennings): Milwaukee would be a playoff team if the season ended today, but it is difficult to decide who deserves most of the credit for that (although it’s certainly not Scott Skiles). Is it the supremely talented Monta Ellis? The enigmatic Ersan Ilyasova? Shot-blocking savant Larry Sanders? Nope, it’s got to be Brandon Jennings because of what he contribiutes in the way of minutes (team-leading 37 MPG), three-point shooting (36.7 3pt% while making over 2 threes per game), and leadership. He might not lead the team in PER (that’d be Dalembert) or WS (that’d be Ersan), but he does lead them in VORP (2.78). It’s not pretty, but perhaps our endorsement of Jennings will earn him that max contract he’s seeking. [...]

By: Bucks Guru

Bucks Guru — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:11:20 +0000

Haha I know Dragic is a stud, 6’3″ with good % and a high basketball IQ. He’s definitely on the trading block because everyone on the suns is (deservingly so) and I totally agree, I’d pay for Wins over Flash any day of the week. THE NEW LOOK BUCKS! (hopefully)

By: SillyBilly

SillyBilly — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:22:29 +0000

Like the comment but its funny if you would ask the average person about dragic vs Jennings and they would tell you that Jennings is a far better player when really that’s not true at all. I would give the edge to Dragic especially on a team with some talent. He makes 7.5 mil a season, lets see how much more Brandon ends up making for being flashy.

By: Bucks Guru

Bucks Guru — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:20:57 +0000

Trade Monta for sure, and Brandon if we can get a valuable PG in return… Goran Dragic?? And everyone keeps talking about Brandons FG%… Yea thats terrible but what about his complete lack of ability to play defense? Steals aside, does anyone else realize that every team we play their PG absolutely blows up against us. Hes too small, with no desire to play on that end of the floor.

Did I forget to mention we NEED to trade Monta?

By: Sillybilly

Sillybilly — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:43:39 +0000

Goran Dragic was signed for 7.5 mil last year, and truth be told he is probably a more effective PG than BJ3 despite what most people believe. Dragic is playing statistically superior to Jennings (as he did last year) on perhaps the worst team in the League. Dragic is a pure pg who would be more effective than Brandon in a situation with a star or two to feed the ball to.

So why should Brandon make more than 7.5? I don’t think he’s really worth it. Rondo makes 11, if Brandon made 10 that would be an abomination. If we let him go he will be totally replaceable, and the pg we bring in might actually be better at distributing to the real scorer we need at G or SF if we ever want to be serious.

By: OB

OB — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:03:06 +0000

Okay then, if you don’t accept his shooting % as a reason, how about his True Shooting? He is the 52nd ranked PG in TS%, tied with CJ Watson.

SP all of your arguments are saying its because he is being forced to be the # 1 guy. While that is true, if he isn’t capable of that, he should not be asking to be paid like a #1 guy when his abilities are that off a #3.

He has value, he isn’t Monta Ellis bad (yet), but he shouldn’t get more than a 3 year deal at ~10 mil a year. That would be a fair price to him and for the Bucks to pay to see if he ever develops under a new coach or continues struggling.

By: Sillybilly

Sillybilly — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:22:47 +0000

I think New Orleans looks pretty promising actually. As for Washington and Sacramento, well they don’t have John Hammond picking their players. Plus none of those teams have a core like Sanders, Henson, Ilyasova, Udrih, Dunleavy, LRMAM, etc. The Bucks just need to add a star, not start from scratch.

Im not saying the Bucks should tank, Im saying that they should not commit significant long term cap space to players that are not legitimate stars. The bucks have everything except for 1 real all-star, or even 2 for that matter. If jennings asks for 10 or less, sure resign him, but anything more would be ill-advised. And Ellis is overpaid the way it is and looking to make more.

By: sp

sp — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:25:56 +0000

and that was to amanwithantlers

By: sp

sp — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:22:44 +0000

oh and remember that one time where we got the #1 pick, how did that turn out?

By: sp

sp — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:19:55 +0000

you are the only person on here with common sense