carayip wrote:Johnlac1 wrote:The difference between Lin and Jennings is the difference between one player (Lin) who looks to see what the best play will be in a given situation, pass or shoot, and acts accordlingly and one player (Jennings) who looks to see if he can get his shot off. And then maybe he'll pass.
Have you thought of that if you guys had any players for Jennings to pass to? You have to evaluate players under their circumstances.
Jennings is a bad point guard regardless of the talent around him. The thing with point guards is that if they're talented playmakers and they're willing passers it'll show itself in some way. It's easy to say that he has no one to pass to but these are NBA players, they needed to have
some talent coming into the league. A good point guard would find ways to get those players going. Jennings doesn't do this at all, he only looks for his own shot and that's it.
Ricky Rubio has the same problem with the lack of talent around him but he tremendously improved the Wolves offense nonetheless. Granted they have Kevin Love who's a better weapon than anything on the Bucks, but the year before they were bad offensively. They also have Pekovic, but it was clear he was not the same player after Rubio was injured. His best options that weren't those two big men were Wesley Johnson, Martell Webster, and Anthony Tolliver. Putrid!
While I say this, and I'm a huge Jeremy Lin, he's not great in this aspect himself. He's definitely a willing passer and has the vision, but I don't know about his point guard "instincts". However as we all know he's a super hard worker and not every point guard can come in as talented as Ricky Rubio. I was still very young when he entered the league but I doubt that Steve Nash came in right away with elite point guard playmaking.
how fake is this dude
