I picked him up in my head to head fantasy league after maybe his 2nd game. I figured in 4 more games he'd fall back to Earth. He was like a 35% shooter till he started playing games that count. Now there are very very very few guys I trade him for. I'd consider Derron Williams, Joe Johnson, but don't even come here with weak azz Baron Davis or Jason Kidd or Chauncey Billups or something.
He's like Iverson with a good fg%.
I like the way he walks and talks. He's infusing the Bucks with pride they haven't felt since maybe the 1970s
I love love love it when a cocky player who knows he's the best goes on a personal mission to humble the entire league.
He was humbled in Italy and took things people said about him personally and now it's payback revenge time.
random prediction: the field goal percentage will not last. By the end of the season he'll be shooting around 40%
Agreed -- Jennings is a streak shooter (with an iffy shot selection) who's going through a hot patch right now. Those FG% will plummet.
I just don't get how he can shot like 33% in europe and 33% in the preseason and then suddenly turn into a consistent 49% shooter. Not happening. He's streaking. I'm guessing he's going to have a few 2 for 17 games pretty soon.
I hope not. It'd be pretty exciting if some 20 year old kid just busted onto the scene and dominated. But I just can't see it happening. 55 points in the 7th game of his career is pretty freakin amazing though considering that Iverson's career high is 60.
The last time I was like, "oh snap" about a midget rookie was when 19 year old Dajuan Wagner busted into the league and had 17 points, 5 points, 29 points, 28 points, 25 points, 29 points, 18 points, 7 points, 33 points... and then his career was pretty much over from there. That's the kid who scored 100 points in a high school game. But to be fair to Jennings, Wagner wasn't shooting that high of a percentage when he went on his early rookie scoring explosion.
Another unfair comparison... I remember when Ronald Murray joined the Sonics after being pretty average his first couple years... he filled in for Ray Allen and this was his game log to start the season: 24 points, 22 points, 24 points, 24 points, 29 points, 20 points, 16 points, 26 points, 31 points, 26 points, 21 points... the highlight of his career. People eventually realized he was a streaky ballhog shooter and he's puttered around the league ever since.
I'm sure Jennings is going to have a far better career than either of those guys... but i'm just saying that an early season hot streak isn't unprecedented.
When was the last time a 19 year old rookie streaked so well that he was playing like one of the top 7 players in the league and got the Bucks to win with no help whatsoever?
This is totally different from anything ever seen.
I agree with you he may well come down to Earth, because teams will start double and triple teaming him and fouling him, and his true ability to shoot is probably more like 43% or something, but what he's doing is amazing, not just a streak. If it's just a streak it's pretty much the most amazing streak of all time. What happens when he goes for 100? Just a streak, getting lucky? I'm not saying he will, but it's like that. Ok. That is an extreme example to prove my point, but it's the natural logical extreme extension of where this kid is presently heading. 19 year olds go for 20 points. They rarely go for 55. Maybe Bron and Melo did.
Also I don't see why when Chris Paul goes for 25, 8 rebs, and 9 assists and his team loses people say "Oh he's such a good point guard" but when 19 year old Jennings goes for like 35, 9, and 9 and the Bucks actually win people say "Oh he's streaking. He's not that good." Mkay. I'll choose to believe until he gives me reason not to
eja117... when do we officially get to call him streaky?
Last 7 games:
6-21 28.6%
4-15 26.7%
3-11 27.3%
7-22 31.8%
5-15 33.3%
7-21 33.3%
6-20 30.0%
BRUTAL! That's Dajuan Wagner-esque. Oh yeah... they are also have lost 6 of those last 7 games.
Looks pretty darn streaky to me.
So who is he?... the player who shot under 40% in Europe and shot under 40% in preseason and is currently shooting under 40% in this recent cold streak.... or the player who caught everyone off guard at the start of this season?
He's now shooting 41% for the season. He got there quicker than I thought he would.
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