Yes, but those players had far more experience by the time they were rookies than Jennings has. If Jennings was still performing that way after 2 or 3 years in Europe or college then the likelihood of him changing his ways would decrease dramatically. However, in this case it's a little more open-ended.
Well those are certainly interesting videos. There is no denying his court vision but dang that's an ugly shot. His shot looks like D fisher's only he kinda fades away and his body goes all over the place. He doesn't seem to know what to do once he gets to the basket and prefers to take fade away jump shots from 20 feet in isolation. I don't know how to evaluate a kid his age and to accurately determine how his game will grow. I do have confidence that Geoff does.
A blog on Jennings for those of you who are interested, sort of biased but has alot of good information in it.
http://thepaintedarea.blogspot.com/2009/06/will-brandon-jennings-laugh-last.html
http://thepaintedarea.blogspot.com/2009/06/will-brandon-jennings-laugh-last.html
New Brandon Jennings interview with The Sporting News.
http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/Th...a_when_teams_see_me,_theyll_see_what_i_can_do
http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/Th...a_when_teams_see_me,_theyll_see_what_i_can_do
Well, having seen all three of them play I agree with him. Jennings is a legit PG. Evans can pass, but he's a scorer. Holiday can play some PG but not full-time. His calling card is defense. Playing PG and actually being an NBA PG are two different things. Didn't Brad Miller use to play PG in high school?
I'm not sure that he was talking about them as much as he was answering the question about converting a shooting guard into a point guard. I thought it was a dumb question in the first place in the way it was worded. It implied that Evans and Holiday were always shooting guards, which as you point out, they wern't.
Well whatever you think about Holiday it's painfully obvious he's a better PG than SG, if you're seen him play I don't see how you can deny that. However he should really keep the criticism of his peers to himself, especially when he hasn't proven crap either. He may have better PG skills than them, but he has yet to prove he has the intangibles that he talked about and he was playing a lot of off guard for Roma, so it's not like he's really that much different. I think GM's would appreciate a greater respect for his peers rather than his amateur opinion of the potential PG's in this draft.
Honestly I don't think he was bashing....I think he was just telling the truth. In his opinion he thinks that Evans and Holiday would have a hard time playing Point in the NBA because they were SG in there collegiate career, and I agree with him I do beleive that Holiday and Evans aren't true point guards but just combo gaurds.
Actually saying that they can't be PG's is bashing them because a.) those guys want be known as versatile players and b.) PG's are more valuable than SG's. Lets just say for the sake of argument that his opinion could affect GM's opinions on other players, he'd definitely want to make them look like less of a PG so it would bump him up on the rankings of PG's. Whether it was his honest opinion or not, he should've been more political in his answer, he hasn't proven he's a real PG yet either, he just can't play any other position.
Everyone who watched Holiday play knows that he was playing out of position and he would've been playing PG if it wasn't for Collison staying. Evans yeah, he's definitely more of a 2 guard who can be a PG at times, but they played PG more than they SG if you take their HS careers into account. It's not like they've played SG in college for 3 straight years and are just now trying to convert.
Everyone who watched Holiday play knows that he was playing out of position and he would've been playing PG if it wasn't for Collison staying. Evans yeah, he's definitely more of a 2 guard who can be a PG at times, but they played PG more than they SG if you take their HS careers into account. It's not like they've played SG in college for 3 straight years and are just now trying to convert.
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IMO the big and most important difference between Telfair and Jennings is that Telfair did not have the athleticism or explosivness that Jennings has. Telfair also was still his streetball flashy self coming into the draft while Brandon Jennings has had time to mature and learn the game in the Euro league.
jennings won the PG battle on fridays pre draft workout;
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/sports/kings/archives/2009/06/so-who-won-the.html
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/sports/kings/archives/2009/06/so-who-won-the.html
