Brandon Jennings

MILWAUKEE — So it’s not a coincidence. Brandon Jennings This kid can play. We’ll be ready to go overboard here. You could not have been at the Bradley Center on Saturday and did not feel he was seeing something completely different.

Jennings is not just work on becoming a very good player, a rookie in a strong rookie class very solid. It is rising above all that. It’s becoming a star. Rookie of the Year? Bah. We may soon be thinking of him as a possible All-Star.

If your numbers through the first six games of the season was not enough evidence – he averaged 20.7 points, 5.2 assists and 4.3 rebounds – which the Warriors did Saturday night should be enough to consolidate the status of the child. He shook off a 4-for-13 first half (10 points) to light up Golden State by 29 points in the third quarter, the most points a player has scored against the Warriors in a quarter.

He finished with 55 points, with 12-to-13 for the third quarter to vault the Bucks to come from behind win. The 55 are a franchise rookie, surpassing the old mark of 51 held by Lew Alcindor. They are also the most points scored by an NBA rookie since Earl Monroe in 1968.

“I was standing in offensive rebounding position perfect all the time,” said the center Andrew Bogut. “But he kept working on the network.”

Jennings, of course, shocked children through basketball without passing through on a commitment to Arizona and instead of playing professional baseball in Italy last year, then join the project in 2009. He put the numbers of pedestrians in Italy, struggling to earn playing time between the benefits of euro, and in doing so managed to slip to No. 10 in the project. I was not even sure I was going to go that high – remember, refused to go to the green room at Madison Square Garden on draft night because I was not sure where he had land and did not want to wind up in a chamber as teams passed over him.

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