emunney wrote:And if he does continue to improve, he's going to start drawing tougher defenders more consistently.
I think its pretty telling that despite having Monta Ellis, the Heat were playing Lebron on Jennings in OT, the Lakers came out with Kobe on him (and our other guys couldn't take advantage of a 38 year old STEVE NASH ffs), and a lot of other teams tend to trap Jennings in key situations to force someone else to take the shots.
About assist totals, I think Jennings just needs to do what he does well and we will be fine. When he plays well, the team tends to do well regardless of assist totals. If he does anything along those lines, it would be to look to create more for others in the games that his shot isn't falling instead of just shooting less.
Calderon has been in the top few guys in the league in assist totals when given starters minutes and their offense couldn't even crack the top half the past few seasons.
Not that passing is bad, I just think trying to force Jennings into a pass first mold would be a failure.