I liked some of your points, but I have to disagree with this. It’s not all about Jennings’ shooting – he’s also a speedster, capable of breaking down a defense and dishing out a ton of assists. He’s even a triple-double threat… everyone focuses on his 55 point game – but, don’t forget his first NBA game where he put up 17/9/9.

Overall I think Jennings will be the better player, partly because of his shooting, but also because I think he’ll average a lot more assists than Evans – especially when they get some decent players around him.

Any data that says Tyreke Evans is clearly a SG is a bit off because I feel that data is based off whose guarding Reke, and not how he plays.

If you want to argue that Brandon Jennings has had a better season than Tyreke Evans, go ahead. But I feel you probably don’t know enough about either player to conclusively draw that opinion and make it stick.

Good luck with that hanging of yourself though.

I don’t know about Jennings because I haven’t charted his games but I’ve been charting the Kings with stuff like points given up. Although, I’m behind on doing so, I’ll have the numbers up to date within two weeks and we’ll go back to it then.

GSW > Sacramento Kings :
sacramento blog would trash on anthony randolph & the warriors…

Trash > Warriors

http://www.82games.com/0910/09MIL1.HTM#bypos
http://www.82games.com/0910/09SAC3.HTM#bypos

if the defensive numbers were close, I’d probably ignore this and yield to a scouting eye. But they’re not.

Those are pretty big margins, especially the three-pointers.

Now, there’s arguments you can make to equalize those numbers. For example, statisticians routinely toss out outliers, and what is Jennings’ 55-point game but an outlier? Better to toss it out and recalculate — now where’s that 3 point margin, Brandon? Or arguing that with only a few games in the books, a average one-assist margin isn’t all that big. Or maybe Tyreke doesn’t take as many threes, so the one game where he went 0-for-something skews his percentages. Something.

But you didn’t make those arguments. You tried a little sleight of hand. You called Jennings’ lead in those categories “statistical advantages.” Then you pointed to other categories where you said Evans “excels over Jennings.” Kinda tricky — “statistical advantage” vs. “excels over” — seeming to imply that Jennings’ numerical advantage is slim in those categories, while Evans’ advantage is much larger in each category. But it ain’t so, is it?
A 1.8% lead in field goal percentage? Come on.
A 5% statistical lead on two-point shots. I mean, I kinda see it, but they’re both in the same ballpark.
A 1 rebound-per-game difference, when Evans is 5 inches taller? Please.
A steals lead of 0.15 per game? Again, come on. That’s ticky-tack.
A 1.6% difference from the free throw line? One more times on the line on average? A 0.09 turnovers per game difference? That’s less than one tenth of 1 percent!

There’s a case to be made for Tyreke Evans, but this ain’t it.