We have solid players IN: Lin Hardin Parson Osik Patterson Jones Delfino Cook Unproven players: Machado White Montiej Greg Smith Aldrich And then we have the WORST: Tony Douglas Marcus Morris Oh, and the unproven coach: McHale (why the hell you play Douglas and Morris) when you have Jones who is a hell lot better than Morris. Is it because he's rookie? It's pathetic really.
You won't see anything special. But he looks to be a solid player that positively impacts the game. I'll accept him for what he is but if the rockets want to build a contender he'll have to be the 4th or 5th best starter on the team.
Indeed. When Harden was out there w/o Lin, the defense would key onto Harden, and his effectiveness went down. When both of those two were out there, Harden kicked into another gear. Harden played amazing ball today, I'm totally stoked for this guy. Even though Martin would score in bunches, he stopped the offense. Harden scores and makes plays for others. I thought I was watching Lebron for a second.
**** lowry. Goran could have easily been kept and we would never have had Lin if it weren't for Les seeing that asian $$$. Goran is the better player imo. Lin looked okay, and of course he CAN get better, but Harden and Goran would look better together right now. It's my opinion. That is all. I'm not dissing his holiness the Jeremy Lin. I just think what we see is what we are going to get. An avg player.
Olajuwon no longer plays for the Rockets. Drexler no longer plays for the Rockets. Steve Francis no longer plays for the Rockets. TMac no longer plays for the Rockets. Yao no longer plays for the Rockets. Lowry and Dragic no longer play for the Rockets. But hell we all know their history. I am not particularly good at arguing with a random uneducated poster on the Internet but I don't think I am the one who needs to re-educate myself. Good night.
Lin looked okay. Not great, just okay. He played solid, but he did have some cringeworthy plays. And you people using +/- to give him so much credit and diminish Harden, you realize that during Linsanity, Lin didn't always have the highest +/-, don't you? For example: Lakers game, Lin was +8, but Billy Walker was +15 Mavs game (in MSG), Lin was +14, but JR Smith was +21 Did you downplay Lin's performances in those games? No, didn't think so.
Watching Lin tonight I felt like he was a little off with his shot and timing... but I love how he plays. I didn't see much of him on NY last year (although I liked the couple of games I watched), but feel like he's a really valuable player after watching tonight. That +23 isn't an accident... he starts the offense fast, plays unselfish, and sets the tone on D... just a really fluid high bbiq game that rubs off on everybody imo... 12-4-8 and 4 steals is actually a really good PG line anyway... so not sure what people are underwhelmed by, but I imagine that once he grooves in, he'll be more around 17-4-8.5-2.5 with solid percentages... this backcourt is SO fun to watch!
It's a New Age dude. You're still dreaming about an old Rockets team that doesn't exist. Stop living in the past. Lin looked good. Sometimes +/- is skewed if you just look at the box score, but watching every minute of this game, his +23 was very real and accurate. He certainly looked like he belonged as a starting PG in the NBA. This was the kind of game he was aiming for coming into tonight. He doesn't and shouldn't be scoring 30 pts when Harden was as unstoppable as he was. Also, the refs easily costed him 6-8 pts at the line without any calls and Morris alone costed him another 2 assists.
Lin is no Dragic/Lowry. If he was, the Rocket's would've lost. Dragic/Lowry are stat kings, but game losers. Look at today's boxscore: Lowry 6/11 21 pts 8 asts, 7 rbs, 5 steals and a big ass loss. Dragic 2/6 10 pts 6 asts 4bs and trailing at the half. BTW, both players are considered by the ESPN pundits to have better teams, and yet with good numbers, still can't manage to get their teams over the hump to VICTORY. I get it, you like losers, to each their own.
If he goes 12 & 8 and the Rox win I'm sure Lin won't give a crap what anyone thinks. Its a good night, we got the W!
Lin is an excellent defensive player. He is always in the right spot, makes all the percentage, position plays, and still gets steals, blocks, and deflections. The detractors rip on his defense because defense is harder for casual fans to understand, and when people say it enough, people believe it. Clutchfans, don't believe it. We have our own defensive Joe Dumars, with more steals, blocks, rebounds, and deflections. Lin never makes the flashy play, always the percentage play, and he helps out ALL of his teammates, even drawing the charge on Maxielle on a postup.
<br> Oh god, we're going to have to deal with people like you who don't actually know basketball for who knows how long now. Lowry>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Lin Dragic>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Lin <br> Sadly Houston had to part ways with both and now we're stuck with Lin. But it's ok, he's not bad and hopefully he'll continue to grow as a player and his weaknesses will work themselves out.
You are entitled to your opinion, Lin's defense has always been > than Lin's offense. If you value defense and team play, you will appreciate Lin much more.
