Jeremy Lin suffers patellar tendon rupture, out for the season

Better players on the team, more experience in the system. Nets were a .500 team after March 1 last season after Lin returned from injury. So assuming they continued to improve and Lin and the team stayed relatively healthy, a .500 team in the eastern conference would most likely make the playoffs.

 

I dunno...hard to say that an undrafted Ivy League player who has managed to stay in the league as long as Lin has is a disappointment by any measure. I’d say that the majority of 1st overall draft picks that didn’t last more than a few years in the league are far more disappointing than an underdog like Lin.

 

Then Lin should be way up there based on last year’s team...they only won something like 7 games without him...13 wins with him. Nearly doubled their wins with him vs. without him. If that isn't a player making big contributions to their success and an illustration of how important he was to the team, I don't know what is.

 

This is why I believe if Lin was not out of season the Nets would have a better chance to make it to the playoffs than without him now. Lin is good for another 10-15 more wins.

 

Spencer Dwindell or whatever his name is light years better playmaker/PG then lin.

 

Is that why the Nets have him 3rd on the depth chart at PG?

 

when you are consistently inconsistent AND you are injury prone, pretty meh

 

Why the f would you bump this hell hole of a thread aye.

 

Lin is very popular here.

 

I am not a Lin hater but c'mon man!

 

Why is this such a stretch? Last season, the Nets won 13 games of the 33 games he started in and only 7 in the 49 they played without him or him off the bench. That's a 39% winning percentage with Lin starting and 14% winning percentage with Lin out or off the bench in limited time. If Lin was healthy enough to start all 82 games, that 39% winning percentage would have led to 32 wins...12 more than they ended up without him. So the idea that Lin would be good for 10-15 more wins for the Nets is completely feasible.

 

He’s good for a 10-15 win team. Seriously has he ever posted close to a 10-15 WAR season?

 

You do realize that Lin's best win share was about 5 right? That's anywhere from half to a third of what you are saying he would contribute to.

 

Not even 5 lol. That’s the funny part - they think a max 4 WAR guy will be a 10–15 WAR guy after several years of being a 1-2 WAR guy.

 

Im not sure about Nets but I can say Jeremy Lin was the main reason for all those Knicks wins in 2012. If you look on wiki Knicks go from 9-15 to 15-15 after he starts but later lose 6 straight after Carmelo comes back LOL.

 

Read my post above and try to understand why that doesn’t mean he was worth 6 wins.

 

Sorry this happened. Jeremy brings extra interest and excitement to the league, and injured derailed the opportunity. Hope he returns strong.