SLAM Radio: Brandon Jennings’ Pro Debut

Oh BTW, Andre Hutson and Allen Ray are the other USA players on Pallacanestro Virtus Roma to help Brandon adjust this year, and I dont think Rubio will be healthy for said game, and Anthony Parker (Candace’s Bro, Raptors) played their in 03 too

Just cut and pasted this directly from TrueHoop:
When Brandon Jennings — a top American high-schooler last year — decided to spend his mandated pre-NBA year overseas instead of atttending college, there was speculation that he might not play very much. European teams play to win now, and seldom give valuable floor time to young point guards. But The New York Times’ Pete Thamel’s report from Italy makes it sound like Jennings will play: “The 6-foot-2 Jennings, Roma’s youngest player by five years, is coached by the demanding Jasmin Repesa, who also coaches Croatia’s national team. The team practices twice a day, with skill work and weight lifting in the morning and more traditional practice at night. Jennings is comfortable because he has three American teammates, and the team’s primary language is English. He lives with his mother and half-brother in a posh apartment provided by the team. Yet during training camp in September, Repesa, whose booming voice could quiet an Oktoberfest beer tent at last call, threw Jennings out of practice one day for not cutting hard in a drill. ‘I was like, Man, I got kicked out of practice for that,’ Jennings said. ‘But it was lesson learned, and we moved on.’ That moment was an anomaly. Repesa said Jennings had improved significantly, especially on defense, during his first month. He led the team in scoring, averaging about 20 points through five exhibition games. Roma’s general manager, Dejan Bodiroga, said he had been impressed with Jennings’s attitude, work ethic and determination. That has coalesced with his natural ability. ‘He’s one of the top talents that I’ve ever seen,’ Bodiroga said. So far, Roma seems happy with the result, and Jennings is likely to play plenty of minutes when the 65-game season begins later this month.”

Give me a break, trailblazer!?! The guys just plain stupid, couldn’t even get into college and had no other options.

I love this idea, this was a great show as well. Very interesting.

RYNE NELSON ON THE TRACK! Outstanding SLAMradio piece. Jeff Fox with the insight. SLAM needs to keep it up with the radio ish’. And to all the people Hating B-Jennings: STOP THE HATE! Great job Ryne. one last thing needed to be talked about: Why does everyone get skittish thinking about HS people playing overseas? You have to be with the right agent to even be in position to go overseas, so in my opinion the only players i see making the europe leap are: Lance Stephenson, Renardo Sydney. Lance never struck me as somebody who was looking forward to college academia & Renardo is notorious for being the laziest basketball player in the past decade. That, coupled with an ego larger than Sarah Palins pronunciation of Alaska, make me think he will go overseas via Sonny Vaccaro

Slam Radio!

I wanna hear Ryne freestyle over the intro beat next time!

B. Long, nice piece on the site; I agree with you!