so he chucks just like jennings, but does so much better than jennings. yet you want to give the midseason award to jennings? makes no sense. tyreke evans has been a far better player than jennings at the midway point this year. that is a fact that can't even really be disputed. picking jennings means that you're either projecting the rest of the season(which you say you aren't), that you haven't really paid attention to much basketball this year, or that you're just a dumbass. i'm leaning towards one of those for you, but feel free to pick.
im using bullet points to make it easier for u reasons why jennings should be the rookie of the year over evens -jennings plays the tougher position -jennings has less of a supporting cast -the bucks have a better record -jennings had a 55 point game which hasnt been done in a generation by a rookie -jennings is arguably the most exciting player in the league -and jennings and evans numbers are very similar; evans has better ppg average but jennings has more assists and fyi- im giving him the award because of his mid season game and im not projecting out to the 82 game. if i was- maybe evans would get the award but what jennings has done thus far is incredible. the only point of concern is jennings dropping fg% and that could curb his run in the second half of the season. also, he might be exhausted as well because he really didnt play last season.
ok i'll address your points. evans has played about 40% of his minutes at pg(according to 82games.com), so it's not like he hasn't been playing a significant amount of that "tougher position". they both have bad supporting casts. with kevin martin only playing 8 games thus far, i don't see one cast being better than the other. it's 16-23 against 15-25. not like it's a big difference there and the bucks are helped by playing in the weaker conference. which is why jennings has all the hype. evans averaged 22/5/5 over an entire month. that's more impressive than a one game showing. i could say the same about evans if i wanted to. their numbers aren't that similar when you really look at them. jennings is putting up 18/6.2/3.6 while shooting 39%. evans has 20.8/5/5 while shooting 46%. evans dominates jennings in PER and ts%. if the award was for the first month of the year, jennings would win it. he was awesome to start the year. in october and november(16 games total) he was averaging over 20 points and 6 assists while shooting over 40% from the field and 50% from 3. but that clearly was just a hot streak and he shot under 38% from the field in december and is now at 30% from the field in january. that's terrible.
it's really the other way around. some people have a hard on for jennings because he had a 55 point game so they've overlooked his terrible play for the past two months.
u made some good points but some of it is pure conjecture as well. for instance- if we polled nba fans- i can assure u that jennings would be ahead of evans in the "most exciting player" category. nevertheless, as for 82games.com stat about evans spending 40% of his time at the pg spot- i would like a better breakdown of that stat because if he wasnt guarding the opposing pg- that stat to me is irrelevant. for instance- hedo here in toronto plays the pg spot offensively for like a quarter of the game but he doesnt guard opposing pg's. when jalen was here- he played the pg exclusively from the mid way point of the season to the end in the kevin o'neil era and was routinely torched by opposing pg's off the dribble. so tyreke might be able to distribute the ball effectively but can he keep opposing pg's in front of him? the weaker conference? another debatable point because the east have 3 of the 4 best teams in the league and atl might be the fifth best team depending on who u ask. 55 for one night or averaging 22 in a month? i actually agree with u on that point but what are voters more likely to remember- that historic 55 game or tyreke's brilliant efficiency? besides, isnt that 55 the highest point total by any player this season? and your last point is revealing. u concede that jennings ran away with november but u think evans may have edged him out in december and winning the first 2 1/2 weeks of january- so it isnt a landslide as u've previously stated.
and this story is not going to do any favours for evans, especially in light of the recent spat of nba bad boys losing control http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/sixers/20100119_Tyreke_Evans_sued_in_Delco.html
it's not debatable at all. 11 teams over .500 speaks for itself. i don't care who anyone is most likely to remember. i care about who the better player is. jennings played great in november. that doesn't mean he ran away with it. and evans absolutely ran away with it that last two months. i mean jennings shooting under 38% in december and just 30% in the new year is just terrible. it is a landslide because evans has consistently been really good for the entire season so far while jennings was great for maybe 40% of the year so far but terrible the rest of the time. it won't do his public perception any favors, but it doesn't have any effect on his play on the court.
