As for Thornton’s average… he’s only started like 4 games this year! C’mon! Of the games he’s actually played 30+ minutes, he’s averaged like 20 points.

And the whole double team argument… I say quit whining again. Every great scorer gets double teamed. Thornton is gonna get double teamed if he keeps putting up numbers like this. If his FG% drops to the abominable lows that Jennings has, I’ll eat my own crap.

How many Bucks games have you watched this year? As a long-time fan, I’ve watched roughly three-quarters of them and Jennings is a good scorer, but teams have done a nice job of containing him as the Bucks don’t have a lot of other options offensively. Andrew Bogut is good, but they’re starting Charlie Bell, Carlos Delfino and Luc Mbah a Moute (or Ersan Ilyasova) most of the time. He is constantly being double teamed on the pick and roll and defenses are paying a lot of attention to him.

I said he has a nice floater, not midrange jumper. However, his midrange game is good when he’s open and he’s a decent finisher around the basket. The main reason his numbers aren’t higher is because opponents are keying on him.

His less than 15.0 ppg is still four or five points higher than Thornton’s average; besides, you can’t just drop a guy’s big games and say that’s proof that he’s not a good scorer.

And, contrary to what you might believe based on one shot the other night against the Heat, Jennings does not have a good midrange jumper. Statistically, he’s one of the least efficient 2 point field goal scorers in the league and that’s partly because he struggles at the rim due to his lack of size/strength, but it’s also partly due to his very strange shooting mechanics.

Marcus Thornton on the other hand has been a natural scorer since college. I’m guessing you didn’t follow him that much last year. He hasn’t had many chances yet to prove that will carry over into the NBA but in his past few starts he’s been nothing short of excellent.

Thornton is an excellent scorer. So, in order to be better than him, Jennings has to be exceptional. And he’s just not (yet).

And I didn’t say he was an exceptional scorer. I said he was a better scorer (at the NBA level) than Marcus Thornton. Thornton hasn’t taken as many shots, but he doesn’t have defenses game-planning for him, either.

Thornton, on the other hand, was one of the best scorers in college basketball last year and hasn’t really had a chance to shine yet at the next level like Jennings.