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Brandon is playing for the West team in the McDonalds All-American game. First play of the game Brandon throws down a sick alley-oop. Also, Jennings said Bayless told him last week he will be coming back for his sophomore year. If that happens the Cats will be a legit Final Four team.
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Brandon is playing for the West team in the McDonalds All-American game. First play of the game Brandon throws down a sick alley-oop. Also, Jennings said Bayless told him last week he will be coming back for his sophomore year. If that happens the Cats will be a legit Final Four team.
I just posted this on another thread Didn't know if it needed it's own thread since I didn't find a source online, but it's great news nonetheless.
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Also, Jennings said Bayless told him last week he will be coming back for his sophomore year. If that happens the Cats will be a legit Final Four team.
That would be outstanding, but I'm not counting my chickens just yet.
Only caught a few minutes =( BUT I noticed at NBADraft.net, that Emmanuel Negedu PF (U of A recruit), will be playing at the Hoops Summit game on April 12th. heh
He'll be on the International Team... Brandon wasn't listed for Team USA.
Anywho, that'd be great if Bayless and Hill do come back!
FWIW the UCLA fans on the board I read are just crucifying Jennings for his performance last night. He said he wanted to break the assist record and was passing up shots to try and do that. On the surface it sounds unselfish but when you pass up a layup to try and get an assist and your team winds up not scoring, that hurts the team. When you keep showing up teammates who don't make the shot costing you an assist that seems a bit wrong.
Great talent and I knew he was a hotdog but at times last night he really annoyed me. Didn't play any defense, everytime he came in his man(the guard from New York) immediately would start scoring. There was one play he made a nice pass and started trying to get teh crowd fired up, meanwhile his man ran right by him took a pass for layup. A bit later his man led a 3 on 1 while he was posing after an assist. Jrue Holiday tried to block the shot and wound up getting dunked on but for my money he was at least hustling I'd rather he tried and got dunked on than sat there posing.
I like Jennings alot but the more I see him play the more i hope in a real game he can put all the showboating stuff on the shelf and just play winning basketball? I really haven't seen him do it yet.
FWIW the UCLA fans on the board I read are just crucifying Jennings for his performance last night. He said he wanted to break the assist record and was passing up shots to try and do that. On the surface it sounds unselfish but when you pass up a layup to try and get an assist and your team winds up not scoring, that hurts the team. When you keep showing up teammates who don't make the shot costing you an assist that seems a bit wrong.
Great talent and I knew he was a hotdog but at times last night he really annoyed me. Didn't play any defense, everytime he came in his man(the guard from New York) immediately would start scoring. There was one play he made a nice pass and started trying to get teh crowd fired up, meanwhile his man ran right by him took a pass for layup. A bit later his man led a 3 on 1 while he was posing after an assist. Jrue Holiday tried to block the shot and wound up getting dunked on but for my money he was at least hustling I'd rather he tried and got dunked on than sat there posing.
I like Jennings alot but the more I see him play the more i hope in a real game he can put all the showboating stuff on the shelf and just play winning basketball? I really haven't seen him do it yet.
I wasnt too bothered by the hotdogging, since this has historically been such a throwaway game. It will be interesting to see how he really plays.
I like the kid from Rutgers, passing up bigger programs to play close to home and put them on the map. I might have to track that team next year.
I wasnt too bothered by the hotdogging, since this has historically been such a throwaway game. It will be interesting to see how he really plays.
I like the kid from Rutgers, passing up bigger programs to play close to home and put them on the map. I might have to track that team next year.
THat's how I became a Larry Hughes fan way back he turned down others to go to St. Louis to be near his brother who had a heart condition. His brother Justin wound up with a transplant and passed away a few years ago but I've always pulled for Larry because I knew about that. IN fact one of the teams Hughes turned down was UCLA but when I knew why I had nothing but respect for him.
Kids have a right to go where they want of course but it is nice to see kids now and then make decisions like the kid you mentioned.
Somehow I get the feeling UCLA fan wouldn't be crucifying Jennings as much were he going to be a Bruin next season. All most UCLA fans seem to care about is how hard-nosed a player is and the physicality of his defense, their cult worship of Howland-Ball has become quite obnoxious. God forbid a kid try to have some fun in the fist half of an exhibition game.
Jennings has ridiculous talent and he wins wherever he goes, that's enough for me. And if he decides to play like it's the And 1 game next year in Tucson, well then we may have a couple pretty damn good contingency plans in either Nic Wise or Jerryd Bayless or hopefully both.
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Last edited by MaoTosiFanClub; March 27th, 2008 at 12:24 PM.
Give me a break. It's a friggin' all star game. Of course UCLA fans are ripping Jennings. He's going to UofA.
Does any sane person really think he is going to play that way with Lute on the sidelines?
no way lute would stand for that. and jennings has got to know that. that said, i was a little turned off by the showboating, and i'm a cats fan in hoops. usually i think it's fun, but something about his antics last night rubbed me the wrong way. oh, and i thought the mid-air pose as he threw the off-the-glass alley-oop on the breakaway just looked gay.
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Give me a break. It's a friggin' all star game. Of course UCLA fans are ripping Jennings. He's going to UofA.
Does any sane person really think he is going to play that way with Lute on the sidelines?
I agree. I guess the problem is I've never seen Jennings play where I really felt like he cared if his team won or not. I really wanted him at UCLA for quite awhile but based on the last 3 times I've seen him play I'm glad he's not a Bruin.
I think he has Isiah level talent he's ridiculously skilled. But I have yet to see him play winning basketball. Adrian Branch said it at half time get in a defensive stance don't stand with your arms at your sides. he's done that everytime I've seen him play.
If you saw his matchup with Derrick Rose last year on ESPN he did the same thing most of the game. It was almost like he was afraid to get outplayed by Rose so he just dogged it so people couldn't say he "lost the matchup" they'd be wondering if he was sick or something.
I will say this, there are a few UCLA fans defending Jennings, it's an all star game, the kid has massive talent. It's not unanimous at all but it's not because Jennings went to Arizona. Look at a USC board they're all saying in hindsight I'm so glad he de-committed.
UCLA passed on him because they knew if they got Holiday they would get 3 guards, if they got Jennings, they wouldn't get Holiday, or Lee, or Anderson.
It wasn't that they disliked Jennings or anything like that they just preferred to try and get 3 guards not one.
I think he was the most talented player in the game last night, I just am not sure he'll turn out to be the best because I've never seen him play hard for more than a few minutes at a time and that's something that's hard to turn on in real games.
I still think the matchups will be fun to watch next year Bayless and Jennings, Westbrook(hopefully) and Jrue.
rather than take this way out into a more UCLA discussion I'll start a thread in the regular college section about it so if people are interested they can post there instead of the uA board.
I'm sure the criticism by Bruin and Trojan fans has nothing to do with the fact that Jennings picked UA over them.
Jennings, a 6-0 guard, posted 33 points, 10 steals and eight assists in the Warriors’ 59-48 season-ending victory over Montrose Christian (Md.), as Oak Hill finished the season 34-4. For the season, Jennings averaged 35.5 points per game and amassed 1,312 total points.
I don't know what else Jennings can do to help his team win.
Didn't know if it needed it's own thread since I didn't find a source online, but it's great news nonetheless.
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