NBA Free Agency 2017 Player Profile: Brandon Jennings
By Ti Windisch
Strengths
Well, obviously Jennings knows how to coin a phrase. Win in 6 is so good Adam McGee decided to use it as the title of the Behind the Buck Pass podcast, which includes the original audio from the first time Jennings spoke the phrase in the intro.
As far as on the basketball court, Jennings is most known for being a streaky score-first point guard. He put up numbers, especially in his time with the Bucks, with whom Jennings averaged 17.0 points, 5.7 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game.
In addition to putting the ball in the basket from closer, Jennings can shoot as well. He’s got a career average of 34.6 percent from beyond the arc, which isn’t incredible but it’s far from being bad as well, especially considering just 56.4 percent of his threes are assisted.
Unassisted threes are the variety of triples that can really open up an offense, meaning Jennings provides a boost to team spacing when he’s outside of the three-point arc. Unfortunately, most of the time he’s on the floor he’s handling the ball and doing things besides shooting threes.